Stephen Thorne wrote: > Lambdas contain only a single expression. Even the py3k > wiki page ignores this critical difference. A single expression > means no statements of any kind can be included. Assignment, > if/elif/else, while, for, try/except, etc are not catered > for in lambdas.
That's been the only serious use case I've had for lambdas: a way to have an Expression object, in effect. If we had a more rigorous syntax specifically for first-class expressions, lambda could go away forever in my book. Robert Brewer MIS Amor Ministries [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
