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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 co

by 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.