Skip Montanaro skip at mojam.com
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    Scott> I've read the tutorial and I don't get lambda.

Scott,

You're probably not alone. ;-)

The result of executing a lambda is nothing more than an unnamed function
object.  It has some rather peculiar syntactic limitations that make it
appear very odd to the untrained eye.

You can safely ignore lambda for the time being and just use named
functions.  If/when you need it, you'll probably realize it.

(Fred, maybe discussion of lambda doesn't belong in the tutorial...)

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