From: "Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" <me@...>
Date: 2003-03-27T12:51:21+09:00
Subject: Re: What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas?

sdieselil wrote:
> What are the differences between Ruby's blocks and Python's lambdas?

The main one is that a Python lambda can only contain
an expression, whereas a Ruby block can contain arbitrary
statements.

If that restriction were lifted one day (discussions
come up periodically about doing that somehow) there
would remain another difference -- in Python, names
cannot be rebound in a lexically enclosing local
scope.

-- 
Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept,
University of Canterbury,	
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg