Jacek Generowicz wrote:
[*] Funnily enough, getting them to understand that "lambda x: fn(x)"
is just a very silly way of writing "fn", can be quite a struggle
at times ... but that's probably a consequence of the context in
which lambda is introduced.
If you genuinely taught them that, you may have done them a disservice:
Py> def f(x):
... print x
...
Py> f1 = f
Py> f2 = lambda x: f(x)
Py> f1("hi")
hi
Py> f2("hi")
hi
Py> def f(x):
... print x * 2
...
Py> f1("hi")
hi
Py> f2("hi")
hihi
Cheers,
Nick.
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