From: Brian Adkins <lojicdotcom@...>
Date: 2008-04-19T12:30:04+09:00
Subject: Re: When are lambdas needed?

On Apr 18, 5:13 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Stedwick <philip.broc...@gmail.com> writes:
> > I have seen many tutorials on the Internet explaining where lambdas
> > CAN be used, such as clever multiplication functions, but when are
> > they actually NEEDED?
>
> > Sure, I can take a lambda and "pass it around" so to speak, but I can
> > call a function from anywhere too, right?
>
> > Can somebody give me an extremely useful, NOT complicated, example of
> > when lambdas are the absolute perfect solution to a problem?
>
> Lambdas are anonymous function.
>
> As long as you can give a name to all the functions, they're not
> needed, you can just define (ie. name) a function, and give that
> function by name instead of using lambda.
>
> But that's the very point!  One gets fed up in having to come with
> names for ALL the little functions we can encounter in a program.

So what is an eminent lisper doing posting on c.l.r - considering a
switch? :)