"Jp Calderone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:16:08 -0500, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What puzzles me is 1) why some people apparently think anonymity is >> good -- >> is it really that hard to name non-trivial functions?
> Regarding #1: there must be a great variance between people in the > difficulty of some aspects of programming. I am always amazed to hear > from people who have no difficulty picking names for all of their > functions. This is a task that often stumps me for long minutes. Given > the obvious profusion of functions in most programs, these minutes > compound > into hours very quickly. I am always greatful when a lambda lets me > avoid > wasting time on something as irrelevant as giving a name to a short > function that will be referenced exactly once. For one-off uses not eligible for lambda treatment, where you really do not care about the name, use the same name, such as 'f', over and over, or a series such as f1, f2, ,,, or f,g,h. I have done all three in interactive explorations. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
