Factorials

[Jp Calderone]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 02:01:58AM -0700, Anand Pillai wrote:
> Thank you. I did not know that lambda was in fact slower
> than operator methods, but now I do. I encountered lambda's
> in lisp first, where they are preferred over direct function
> calls. Looks like python's lambda is somewhat different.
> 
> Perhaps the language developers should re-implement it in
> C.
> 

  lambda is already implemented in C (at least, in CPython).  The function
objects lambda creates are -not- implement in C, somewhat by definition.

  Jp


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