On Sep 5, 11:29 am, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > This is a pointless replacement for 'def b(x): return x+a'
And? That has nothing to do with anything I was saying whatsoever. Point is: any mutable shared state is bad, and making objects immutable isn't enough to remove all shared state, or even reduce it to be available only with TEH EBIL global variables. > Python does not have lambda objects. It has lambda expressions that > produce function objects identical except for .__name__ to the > equivalent def statement output. Sure sounds like python has lambda objects to me then... the fact they're a special case of some more general construct is mostly semantics, /especially/ in the context of the point I was actually making, no? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list