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Thank you, this is very interesting. In what way are Python's lambdas restricted? Do they literally have to fit on one line? Do you have to use a separate ver

Thank you, this is very interesting. In what way are Python's lambdas restricted? Do they literally have to fit on one line? Do you have to use a separate version of + to add complex numbers in Python? Do you prefer loop because it's more concise or because you can say things you can't say in Python? Can you give me a couple examples of things that work better with loop? (As you can tell from my questions, I don't know much about Python, but as a Lisp hacker I'm curious about other Lisp hackers' view of it.)

cmcaine 9y ago
Python lambdas cannot contain statements, only expressions. Typical python contains a lot of statements, so that's a bit annoying. You can define inner functions and so on, and most of the times that I want to use lambdas it's just because I've been stuck in a language without *-comprehensions for too long. + works fine on complex numbers. I'm not super familiar with the loop macro, but it lets you do both things similar to a python comprehension and to a python for loop. I don't think it does anything you can't do in python.