On 2011-11-28, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > 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.
It's true. Most conspiracy theories do fall apart once facts and clear thinking are applied. But we love them anyway. ;) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
