Lambda: the Ultimate Design Flaw

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.1192.1112376393.1799.python-list at python.org>,
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard  <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>[Sunnan]
>>
>> [...] for Pythons ideal of having one canonical, explicit way to
>> program.
>
>No doubt it once was true, but I guess this ideal has been abandoned a
>few years ago.
>
>My honest feeling is that it would be a mis-representation of Python,
>assertng today that this is still one of the Python's ideals.

Mind providing evidence rather than simply citing your feelings?  Yes,
there's certainly redundancy in Python right now, but a large portion of
that will go away in Python 3.0.  So where's the abandonment of the
ideal?
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