Alain Ketterlin wrote:
But going against generally accepted semantics should at least be clearly indicated. Lambda is one of the oldest computing abstraction, and they are at the core of any functional programming language.
Yes, and Python's lambdas behave exactly the *same* way as every other language's lambdas in this area. Changing it to do early binding would be "going against generally accepted semantics". It's not the lambda that's different from other languages, it's the for-loop. In languages that encourage a functional style of programming, the moral equivalent of a for-loop is usually some construct that results in a new binding of the control variable each time round, so the problem doesn't arise very often. If anything should be changed here, it's the for-loop, not lambda. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
