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Re: Accumulator

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

> Anything that can be done with lambda can be done without it, because
> these two statements are equivalent:
> 
> _ = lambda y: y
> 
> def _(y):
> 	...

Neither of those two statements makes an anonymous function or closure.

If/when Python gets a macro system, the value of anonymous functions
will become obvious.

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