Neil Cerutti wrote:
I've always held with the "anti-functional style conspiracy" interpretation of Python's lambda expressions. They were added but grudgingingly, made weak on purpose to discourage their use.
Seems to me that Python's lambdas are about as powerful as they can be given the statement/expression distinction. No conspiracy is needed, just an understandable desire on Guido's part not to do violence to the overall syntactic style of the language. -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list