[Nick Coghlan]
#- I just don't understand why people complain so much about #- the restriction to a #- single expression in lambdas, yet there is nary a peep about #- the same #- restriction for generator expressions and list comprehensions.
What *I* don't understand (and it could perfectly be plain ignorance, as never studied languages or computer sciences) is why anonymous functions are so important.
Speaking for myself, I find lazy evaluation of arguments is impractical without them. Defining 2 or 3 named functions in order to make a single function call seems rather unnecessarily verbose. I don't need to use lazy evaluation very often, but when I do use it, it is generally because other approaches would be much more complicated (or significantly less efficient).
This usage pattern is also why I do not find the restriction to a single expression a problem in practice - since I'm merely delaying the evaluation of what I would have supplied as a function argument anyway, I'm already working with an expression.
Cheers, Nick.
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