Python Tutorial Was: Guido's regrets: filter and map

[Grant Edwards]

In article <3DE44D27.3030904 at something.invalid>, Greg Ewing wrote:

> In the case of lambda, however, you can always get
> the same effect using an explicitly declared function,
> bound method, etc. So lambda isn't really  needed
> anyway, regardless of whether list comprehensions
> exist.

Technically, you can do everything with nothing but binary NAND operators,
so things like addition, subraction, etc. aren't really required. That
doesn't make it a good idea to eliminate things just because they can be
replace by more complicated sets of operations.  

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