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

2006-05-08 Thread Patrick May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: ...an alleged reply to me, which in fact quotes (and responds to) only to statements by Brian, without mentioning Brian... Mr May, it seems that you're badly confused regarding Usenet's quoting conventions. It seems that someone pisses in your

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

2006-05-07 Thread Patrick May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: In my opinion (and that of several others), the best way for Python to grow in this regard would be to _lose_ lambda altogether, since named functions are preferable Why? I find the ability to create unnamed functions on the fly to be a

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

2006-05-07 Thread Patrick May
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes: In my opinion (and that of several others), the best way for Python to grow in this regard would be to _lose_ lambda altogether, since named functions are preferable Why? I find the ability to create unnamed functions on the fly to be a