Of what use is 'lambda'???

Steve Horne sh at ttsoftware.co.uk
Thu Oct 26 10:57:21 EDT 2000


On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:09:54 -0700, Paul Prescod
<paulp at ActiveState.com> wrote:

>I haven't used map recently because Python 2.0's list comprehensions are
>pretty much equivalent and the scoping is simpler.

They don't cover 'reduce', but agreed - they are pretty good. The lack
of scoping issues has allowed me to remove some horrible kludges from
some programs.

-- 
Steve Horne
sh at ttsoftware.co.uk



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