[Python-Dev] Let's just keep lambda (original) (raw)

Michael Hudson mwh at python.net
Thu Feb 9 01🔞28 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> writes:

On 2/8/06, Patrick Collison <patrick at collison.ie> wrote:

And to think that people thought that keeping "lambda", but changing the name, would avoid all the heated discussion... :-) Note that I'm not participating in any attempts to "improve" lambda. Just about the only improvement I'd like to see is to add parentheses around the arguments, so you'd write lambda(x, y): x**y instead of lambda x, y: x**y.

That would seem to be a bad idea, as it means something already:

f = lambda (x,y): x + y t = (1,2) f(t) 3

Cheers, mwh

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