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On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com> wrote:

...and, if so, why lambda's?(: Without backward compatibility point I
see that they are getting "unofficially" deprecated and their usage is
dishonored.

Here is one use-case where .. = �lambda .. cannot be replaced with def ..

op\['add'\] = lambda x,y: x+y

op\['mul'\] = lambda x, y: x\*y