Lambda going out of fashion

[Nick Coghlan]

jfj wrote:
> Stephen Thorne wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm a little worried about the expected disappearance of lambda in
>> python3000. I've had my brain badly broken by functional programming
>> in the past, and I would hate to see things suddenly become harder
>> than they need to be.
>>
> 
> Don't worry, it's not gonna go away because too much software is
> depending on it. If you don't follow the advice that lambda is 
> deprecated and you keep using it, more software will depend on it and it 
> will never disappear :)

No, that doesn't apply for Python 3.0

Indeed, lambda as it currently stands will disappear for the Python 2.x series.

Python 3.0 will be a case of "OK, let's take the things we learned were good and 
keep them, and throw away the things we realised were bad"

Undoubtedly, the two languages will co-exist for quite some time.

Cheers,
Nick.

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