merits of Lisp vs Python

greg greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Dec 14 16:48:13 EST 2006


Ken Tilton wrote:

> How close can Python get when code is involved? The reverse function 
> signature is fixed, so can lambda help?

Lambda can be used if the body can be written as a
single expression. Otherwise you need to write the
function as a separate def. When the body is more
than a line or two, this is not usually much of
a problem, and is arguably more readable anyway.

--
Greg



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