On Tue, 2005-08-11 at 00:05 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 09:35 -0500, Jason Tackaberry wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:29 +0100, Dirk Meyer wrote:
> > > I know they are planing to remove lambda, but I guess this would break
> > > a lot of code and I still hope they don't do this. 
> > 
> > Ok, _really_?  Removing lambda is crazytalk.  Unless they plan on
> > replacing lambda with something less limited.  But removing anonymous
> > functions from Python seems pretty stupid.
> 
> I'm fairly certain lambda is going away. GvR hates it.  However, I
> strongly suspect that Python will gain true anonymous blocks in the
> meantime (or perhaps at the same time).
> 
> > Are you sure you're not thinking of map/filter/reduce and not lambda?
> > That would make so much more sense.
> 
> These are probably going away too, or will at least be relegated to a
> module.

They are dropping them all.  Although they are adding a few new
functions which will take care of the most common uses of reduce.   In
general, I agree with GvR that the same functionality for these
functions can be achieved in other ways in python and these other ways
are much more readable.  Although GvR's summary of why these are going
away is a much better read than anything I could write.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=98196


Lakin



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