it's because i am not that deeply familiar with python and the article is not clear itself on this. what is he complaining about then if they are identical in what's returned? is it simply because the REPL returns <lambda> instead of the function name? why does the REPL do this? are they different in some subtle way?
the point was in something like f#, lambda creates a function which can then be bound to a name if you want. if you do so, this is identical to the "normal" function definition because that is really just syntactic sugar for creating lambda functions and then binding it to a name.
the point was in something like f#, lambda creates a function which can then be bound to a name if you want. if you do so, this is identical to the "normal" function definition because that is really just syntactic sugar for creating lambda functions and then binding it to a name.