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

Ken Tilton kentilton at gmail.com
Sun May 7 11:37:13 EDT 2006



Ken Tilton wrote:
> 
>>
>> a = negate(sin(pi/2)+one) = -2.0
>> b = negate(a)*10 = 20.0
> 
> 
> Very roughly speaking, that is supposed to be the code, not the output. 
> So you would start with (just guessing at the Python, it has been years 
> since I did half a port to Python):
> 
>   v1 = one

Sorry, only later did I realize "one" was going in as a named 
spreadsheet Cell. I thought maybe Python was a bit of a super-cobol and 
had one as a keyword. <g>

kenny



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