Re: Macros and anonymous functions

[Bruce Lewis <address@hidden>]

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:

> #my-macro(plot, x*2+3)
> 
> Python could pass the latter expression to the macro as an anonymous
> function even though the user never typed "lambda".

The person who uses my-macro needn't type lambda, but the person who
writes my-macro needs to type lambda.  Otherwise how is it that "x" is a
free variable and "plot" is not?

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