Paul Rubin wrote:
Jeff Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
It seems to me that in other, less-dynamic languages, lambdas are significantly different from functions in that lambdas can be created at runtime.
What languages are those, where you can create anonymous functions at runtime, but not named functions?! That notion is very surprising to me.
Hm, I should have been more clear that I'm inferring this from things that others have said about lambdas in other languages; I'm sadly rather language-deficient (especially as regards *worthwhile* languages) myself. This particular impression was formed from a recent-ish thread about lambdas....
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/messages/1719ff05118c4a71,7323f2271e54e62f,a77677a3b8ff554d,844e49bea4c53c0e,c126222f109b4a2d,b1c9627390ee2506,0b40192c36da8117,e3b7401c3cc07939,6eaa8c242ab01870,cfeff300631bd9f2?thread_id=3afee62f7ed7094b&mode=thread
(line-wrap's gonna mangle that, but it's all one line...)
Looking back, I see that I've mis-stated what I'd originally concluded, and that my original conclusion was a bit questionable to begin with. In the referenced thread, it was the O.P.'s assertion that lambdas made higher-order and dynamic functions possible. From this, I inferred (possibly incorrectly) a different relationship between functions and lambdas in other (static) languages than exists in Python.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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