Securing a future for anonymous functions in Python

[Nick Coghlan]

Jacek Generowicz wrote:
> [*] Funnily enough, getting them to understand that "lambda x: fn(x)"
>     is just a very silly way of writing "fn", can be quite a struggle
>     at times ... but that's probably a consequence of the context in
>     which lambda is introduced.

If you genuinely taught them that, you may have done them a disservice:

Py> def f(x):
...    print x
...
Py> f1 = f
Py> f2 = lambda x: f(x)
Py> f1("hi")
hi
Py> f2("hi")
hi
Py> def f(x):
...   print x * 2
...
Py> f1("hi")
hi
Py> f2("hi")
hihi

Cheers,
Nick.

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