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There is no big harm in giving something a name. Giving a name also helps if you find a need to reuse it later. Plus a name can give a hint to what this code is

There is no big harm in giving something a name. Giving a name also helps if you find a need to reuse it later. Plus a name can give a hint to what this code is for.

rw 17y ago
Yet, if you look in functional programming code (e.g. Haskell, Scheme), you'll find many anonymous lambdas (that in python would be > 1 line). Why would good coders bother doing that?
- eru 17y ago
  If something is small and enough to be anonymous, it's usually simply enough to be expressed without binding a variable. (See point-free style.)
  - rw 17y ago
    Obviously. Show us how to do point-free style in Python. We're talking about Python's lame implementation of anonymous functions, not something that it doesn't have any implementation of.
    - eru 17y ago
      Oh, I thought you were talking about programmers' habits in Haskell.