On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 10:07:38 +0200, sam wrote:
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>> So, while I often use Python's lambdas, the imposed limitations is ok
>> to me since I wouldn't use it for anything more complex.
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>> Also - as a side note - while the syntax is a bit different, the
>> resulting object is an ordinary function.
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> And people start asking why this is that or the other way in Python, and you
> can't give a good answer to newcomers, especially if Python was chosen as a
> first learning language. You can't tell "because Python's parsing mechanism
> don't allow statements in expressions...".
But one can tell "because the way Python's syntax is based on indentation,
no one has come up with a syntax for anonymous functions without the
limitations of the current ``lambda``, that doesn't need 'curly braces' and
is still as readable as Python is now."
Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
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