Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-17 Thread Fred
On Thursday 15 September 2005 15:39, Python wrote: One correction to Bill's announcement: Our guest speaker this month will be our own Lloyd Kvam, who knows something about Functional Programming. It's probably more accurate to same that I am interested in Functional Programming. I wish I

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-17 Thread Bill Sconce
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:41:31 -0400 Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could accomplish in one or two lines with the lambda function what would normally take me 10-20 lines procedurally. Let's see now, that's clickety..clickety 10 to 1 or so. 10-20 lines are harder to read by about that much

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-17 Thread Michael ODonnell
(IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) If I were him I'd be afraid to show off my coding skills because y'all might make fun of me in public, and I've never really cared for roasted lambda chops.

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-17 Thread puissante
Michael ODonnell wrote: (IF someone can show us that lambda is easy to read as well as to write!) That would be Fred, right? HE could show us... (*) If I were him I'd be afraid to show off my coding skills because y'all might make fun of me in public, and I've never really cared for roasted

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-17 Thread Lloyd Kvam
Fred, If you want to, feel free to bring some examples to talk about. On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 13:34 -0400, Bill Sconce wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:41:31 -0400 Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could accomplish in one or two lines with the lambda function what would normally take me 10-20

Re: [Python-talk] Python meeting - next week! 7:00 PM Thursday 22 September, Manchester

2005-09-15 Thread Python
One correction to Bill's announcement: Our guest speaker this month will be our own Lloyd Kvam, who knows something about Functional Programming. It's probably more accurate to same that I am interested in Functional Programming. I wish I *really* knew more about it. On Thu, 2005-09-15 at