"no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

[Donn Cave]

In article <4342bd9a.3192006743 at news.oz.net>,
 bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:18:24 -0700, Donn Cave <donn at u.washington.edu> wrote:
> [...]
> >In the functional language approach I'm familiar with, you
> >introduce a variable into a scope with a bind -
> >
> >   let a = expr in
> >       ... do something with a
> >
> >and initialization is part of the package.  Type is usually
> >inferred.  The kicker though is that the variable is never
> >reassigned. In the ideal case it's essentially an alias for
> >the initializing expression.  That's one possibility we can
> >probably not find in Python's universe.
> >
> how would you compare that with
>     lambda a=expr: ... do something (limited to expression) with a
> ?

OK, the limitations of a Python lambda body do have this effect.

But compare programming in a language like that, to programming
with Python lambdas?  Maybe it would be like living in a Zen
Monastery, vs. living in your car.

   Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu