question about what lamda does

[grebekel at gmail.com]

I stand corrected. Not sure where I got that from, improper
defragmentation due to sleep depravation perhaps...

K.S.Sreeram wrote:
> grebekel at gmail.com wrote:
> > The two primary differences between using def and using lambda is that
> > lambda is limited to a single expression and def cannot be used within
> > another function.
>
> 'def' can certainly be used within another function :
>
> def make_adder( delta ) :
>     def adder( x ) :
>         return x + delta
>     return adder
>
> [sreeram;]
>
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