From: Matt Gushee <mgushee@...>
Date: 2002-09-05T01:30:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby aesthetics

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:55:55PM +0900, Gavin Sinclair wrote:

> >   inc = map(array, lambda x:
> >                       print x
> >                       x + 1)
> >
> > makes me feel weird.  Maybe this comes from mixing expression grouping
> > by parenthesises, and statement grouping by indentation.
> 
> I believe that the above is not legal Python.  "Naturally", a lambda cannot
> have any statements, only expressions.  And only one expression, at that, "of
> course".
> 
> The really weird thing is that map is a function, not a method.  Oh well...

Well, map and lambda may not be the best way to illustrate what Python
is about: they are borrowed from functional languages, and there used to
be a significant faction of purists who felt they didn't belong in
Python at all.

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Matt Gushee
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