Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > Really? Astonishing. To me, the Ackermann's function is a > straight-forward, simple example.
I must admit I have not once in my life written an implementation of the Ackermann function. > Whereas this initiate_query example is the opposite of > straight-forward. It involves a database, which means side-effects. Again, I must hang my head and confess that I have written quite many functions with side effects. > (If lambda is exotic to you because your personal experience happens > to have avoided that area, databases are equally exotic to me for the > same reason. Lambdas are less exotic than layman programmers might think. You may never need a lambda in Python but you will need to master closures and inner classes. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
