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

[Frank Buss]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> I cannot conceive of one.  Wherever within a statement I could write the
> expression
>     lambda <args>: body
> I can *ALWAYS* obtain the identical effect by picking an otherwise
> locally unused identifier X, writing the statement
>     def X(<args>): body
> and using, as the expression, identifier X instead of the lambda.

This is true, but with lambda it is easier to read:

http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/functional.html
http://www.frank-buss.de/lisp/texture.html

Would be interesting to see how this would look like in Python or some of
the other languages to which this troll thread was posted :-)

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