"Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As someone who does a tremendous amount of event-driven GUI > programming, I'd like to take a moment to speak out against people > using us as a testament to the virtues of lamda. Event handlers are > the most important part of event-driven code, and making them real > functions with real names is crucial to maintainable code. The only > reason to ever use a lamdba in Python is because you don't want to > give a function a name, and that is just not a compelling use case for > GUI events. Obviously opinions differ. See the discussion at http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=98196&start=30&msRange=15 I find many of the pleas for lambda persuasive as well. For the contribution of lambda to maintainability, see e.g. Gary Robinson's comment at that link. Alan Isaac -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
