On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:13:28 +1000, Stephen Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a little worried about the expected disappearance of lambda in > python3000. I've had my brain badly broken by functional programming > in the past, and I would hate to see things suddenly become harder > than they need to be.
Me too. But its not only about becoming harder, I actually like the fact that lamda exists as a tie in to the actual concept of an anonymous function. When you read a math book on lambda calculus its nice to transform those concepts directly to the language. The current Pythonic lambda has its limitations, but being able to explicitly create lambdas is a nice feature IMHO. Its much better than having to create lots of one-off single use functions with meaningless names. It can't be that hard to maintain the lambda code, why not just leave it there for the minority of us who like the concept? Alan G. Author of the Learn to Program website http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
