what's wrong with "lambda x : print x/60,x%60"

[Steve Holden]

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Fredrik Lundh enlightened us with:
> 
>>>def somefunc(x): return x*5
>>>
>>>How is that a multi-line function definition?
>>
>>but that's namespace pollution! if you do this, nobody will never ever be
>>able to use the name somefunc again! won't somebody please think about
>>the children!
> 
> 
> If you use that as an inner function, it only "pollutes" the local
> namespace of that function. How's that influencing the rest of the
> world?
> 

I think you need to turn your irony detector up a little - it looks like 
hte gain is currently way too low :o)

regards
  Steve
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