In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeff Schwab <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Also, despite reassurances to the contrary, I still get the impression
>that there is a strong anti-lambda sentiment among the Python "in"
>crowd. Is it just a question of the word "lambda," as opposed to
>perceived cleaner syntax?
The problem with lambda is that too often it results in clutter (this is
a strictly made-up example off the top of my head for illustrative
purposes rather than any real code, but I've seen plenty of code similar
at various times):
gui.create_window(origin=(123,456), background=gui.WHITE,
foreground=gui.BLACK, callback=lambda x: x*2)
That means I need to pause reading the create_window() arguments while I
figure out what the lambda means -- and often the lambda is more
complicated than that. Moreover, because the lambda is unnamed, it's
missing a reading cue for its purpose.
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