[Python-Dev] [BULK] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 31, Issue 37 (original) (raw)

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Thu Feb 9 03:07:59 CET 2006


| From: Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> | 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

Hey! I didn't know you could do that. I'm happy. My lambdas just grew parenthesis on the arguments:

f=lambda(x):x+1 f(2) 3 def go(f,x): ... print f(x) ...
go(lambda(x):x+1,1) 2 go(lambda(x,y):x+y,(1,3)) 4

/c



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