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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:52:44 -0800
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 02/11/2015 05:04 AM, Albert van der Horst wrote:

> That's the reason why my ideal Python doesn't attach a name to a lambda=
 denotation:
>=20
> x -> x**2

Hmmm.  So now let's say you have a few dozen of these types of functions,=
 and you want to talk about the twenty-sixth
one with a peer... are you going to say, "Hey, look at the twenty-sixth o=
ne -- I think it has a bug." or something more
like, "Hey, I think there's a bug in the hyp sin function." ?

People use names, names are good.

Python uses names, because names are good.

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~Ethan~


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