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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 10:49:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?
To: Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de>
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> wrote:
>> Supplemental: The above can be simplified to
>>
>> def makeadder(y): return lambda x: x + y
>>
>
> In turn:
>
> makeadder = lambda y: lambda x: x + y

That's not an improvement.  lambda is for making anonymous functions.
If you're going to construct a lambda and bind it to a name, you
should just use def.