Christoph Becker <cmbecke...@gmx.de> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > It's best to remember that ‘lambda’ is syntactic sugar for creating > > a function; the things it creates are not special in any way, they > > are normal functions, not “lambdas”. > > Could you please elaborate why ‘lambda’ does not create “lambdas”. I'm > a Python beginner (not new to programming, though), and rather > confused about your statement.
We already have a term for what the ‘lambda’ keyword creates: a function. That is, ‘lambda’ creates a function object, without anything to distinguish it from a function created any other way. -- \ “Here is a test to see if your mission on earth is finished. If | `\ you are alive, it isn't.” —Francis Bacon | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
