LAMBDA IS IT USELESS?
Bengt Richter
bokr at accessone.com
Fri Jul 13 18:31:15 EDT 2001
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 18:01:37 +0200, "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:
[...]
>or to the def. The ONLY difference is that lambda generates an
>anonymous function (and is an expression), while def generates a
>named function (and is a statement).
In that case why not allow an anonymous version of def, e.g..,
map(
def(x):
x**2
,xrange(5))
which would work like
map(
lambda x:x**2
,xrange(5))
(OTOH you could make lambda multi-line ;-)
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