annonymous functions -- how to

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Peter Hansen wrote:
> Jason Mobarak wrote:
> 
>> What's wrong with:
>>
>> def blah():
>>   def _ (a, b, c):
>>     a = a + 2
>>     print "stmt 2"
>>     return a+b/c
>>   return doSomethingWith(_)
>>
>> It's basically "anonymous", it just uses a name that you don't care
>> about. AFAIK, it can be immediately clobbered later if need be.
>> Otherwise, the function shouldn't be anonymous.
> 
> 
> Or even better:

Python doesn't have anonymous functions.
See http://boo.codehaus.org/Closures
and the closures examples here:
http://svn.boo.codehaus.org/trunk/tests/testcases/integration/