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Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2011-07-19 10:49 -0600
Subject Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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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.

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Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-07-18 17:45 -0400
  Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-19 00:28 +0200
    Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2011-07-19 00:33 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-19 08:22 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 10:49 -0600
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Thomas Jollans <t@jollybox.de> - 2011-07-19 18:58 +0200
      Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2011-07-19 11:15 -0600
    Re: Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-07-19 06:07 -0400
    Re: Partial Function Application -- Advantages over normal function? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-07-19 12:47 -0400

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