Replacement for lambda - 'def' as an expression?

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

"talin at acm dot org" <viridia at gmail.com> writes:

> [...]
>
> Anyway, here's an example, then, of how 'def' could be used:
>
> add = def( a, b ):
>    return a + b

I'm really not an expert in functional programming, so I wonder
what's the difference between "add = def" (assumed that it worked)
and "def add"?

Tschö,
Torsten.

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