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

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at uci.edu
Thu Feb 9 02:39:38 CET 2006

Jiwon Seo <seojiwon at gmail.com> wrote:

On 2/8/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > 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. Then, is there any chance anonymous function - or closure - is supported in python 3.0 ? Or at least have a discussion about it? or is there already discussion about it (and closed)?

Closures already exist in Python.

def foo(bar): ... return lambda: bar + 1 ... a = foo(5) a() 6

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