On 3/24/14 8:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Your insistence that lambda is confusing is awfully condescending. People are not as dumb as you insist, and they are perfectly capable of learning lambda without a comp sci degree. Like any technical jargon, there is vocabulary and meaning to learn, but the concept is no more difficult than ordinary def functions.
This is an Ad Hominem. My opinion that lambda is confusing must not be construed to mean condescension; not coming from my pen.
I do not insist that people are dumb, nor do I insist that people cannot learn python without a comp sci degree. Pushing those words into my mouth and then beating me up for saying them is, well, ad hominem.
What I am insisting is that *many* people, as point of fact, are confused by the python lambda construct particularly when it is embedded within a for x in and the lambda is supposed to capture the value x (as in my previous examples). This say nothing of their intelligence and says nothing about my supposed motive of condescension. (we my judge actions, but not motives)
I am advocating for understanding, among all python users--- novice and expert alike. Especially when I find so many experts who want to "know" (like the OP on this thread) and other experts who (like ecumenical councils) cannot agree (also noticed on this thread).
I am not seeking over simplification, and I am not seeking to limit the expert in any way; just advocating for Aristotle's mean, whereat we find virtue.
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