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 :-) -- Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
