A critic of Guido's blog on Python's lambda

Rob Warnock rpw3 at rpw3.org
Wed May 10 05:47:41 EDT 2006


Ketil Malde  <ketil+news at ii.uib.no> wrote:
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| Sometimes the best documentation is the code itself.
| Sometimes the best name for a function is the code itself.
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And there's no reason that an anonymous LAMBDA [even if compiled]
couldn't store its source code in the "name" slot for debugging
printouts [e.g., stack backtraces].


-Rob

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