Python is Considered Harmful

Mauro Cicognini mcicogni at siosistemi.it
Mon Oct 27 13:34:53 EST 2003


Marco Antoniotti wrote:

> But this begs the question.  The bottom line is that Python needs to get 
> proper lambda expressions.  The extra "quote" local "unquote" argument 
> is not what you'd expect.

Unfortunately, Guido (van Rossum) has many times over voiced his 
non-support for functional constructs in Python.
In other words, I guess he'd rather pull lambdas from Python than add 
"proper" support for them.

And again, how do you define "proper"?

Mauro





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