Bruno Desthuilliers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I discovered FP with David Mertz's papers about FP in Python. I had > never read nor write a line of lisp, scheme, haskell, caml etc before. > And I'd certainly start thinking of choosing another MYFL if anonymous > functions where to disappear from Python. Note that I said "anonymous > functions", not "lambda". Concerning map, filter, reduce etc, these > functions can live in a separate module, and this wouldn't bother me. > But anonymous functions are part of the language syntax, so there is no > work-around.
Actually I'm pretty sure there is. It should be possible to re-implement the Boost Lambda library in Python: http://www.boost.org/libs/lambda Compared with in-language lambda support it would have the advantage of brevity and clarity for very small functions, but there are lots of disadvantages, too. I wonder how Guido would feel if people started using a (relatively) slow library solution with odd warts as a consequence of dropping real lambdas. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
