[Tutor] Lambda

[Tobin, Mark]

Remco Gerlich wrote:
> 
> In many cases, list comprehensions can be used now where 
> map/lambda used to
> be appropriate, and in my opinion at least they're more Pythonic:

Well maybe list comprehensions should be next, they don't look too scary ;-)
And yes they look really similar to map/lambda now that I have an idea of
what lambda does...

Thanks Remco
Mark

> 
> L2 = [x*2 for x in L]
> 
> > maybe trying to figure out lambdas and recursion in the 
> same week was too
> > lofty a goal... ;-)
> 
> Well, recursion is a profound, fundamental concept, lambda is 
> just a quick
> notation :)
> 
> -- 
> Remco Gerlich
> 
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