Fear and suspicion of lambdas, was Re: Meta decorator with parameters, defined in explicit functions

[dieter]

Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> writes:
> ...
> Rather, the motivation was that a complex thing, with many moving parts,
> has an unexplained implementation: a nested set of functions without
> names to explain their part in the pattern.

In a previous reply, I have tried to explain (apparently without success)
that the "thing" is not "complex" at all but a simple signature
transform for a decorator definitition and that the nested function
implementation is natural for this purpose.