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

[Sybren Stuvel]

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?

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa