Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > The cult of lambda avoidance has lost contact with reality. [...] > Lambda avoidance is rooted in two things, an aversion to the keyword > name [...]
Let's push the diagnosis a bit further : the aversion to the keyword "lambda" has to do with the fact that it ignores the english word used by all non-geeks to convey the meaning, eg "given" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
