PEP 312 - Making lambdas implicit worries me, surely it's just the name 'lambda' that is bad...

[Alex Martelli]

Alexander Schmolck wrote:

> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> 
>> Jack Diederich wrote:
>>    ...
>> > I'm a big functional programming fan, but most python user's aren't.
>>    ...
>> > filter() and only two dozen [very simple!] list comprehensions.
>> 
>> So I guess your "functional programming" enthusiasm doesn't come
>> from Haskell
> 
> I don't think that follows. Python's list comprehensions are different --
> they pollute the namespace.

True -- though I, personally, don't find it hard to pick a name for 
the  control variable in a list comprehension that doesn't overwrite 
any other variable of interest, I think this counts as a (minor) wart.
But I still can't imagine a Haskell list-comprehension fan eschewing 
LC's in Python just because of this wart.


Alex