martin v löwis qpnyslvloewisde guess thats inevitable given lambdas existence human nature plane another hatefully redundant construct find beat upon code reviews result true else result false return result vs simple return bool actually mandatory return bool cant relied upon produce one indeed think phenomenons lambdas available people would instead writing threadtarget lambda foo write def target foo threadtarget target example demonstrates boolean type concept difficult grasp notion boolean expressions easy understand boolean type difficult ie boolean expression used conditional statements also assigned variables returned etc ask students exam rewrite code assuming use java single line typically write return true false likewise apparently notion generic callables difficult understand unless written wont recognize expression callable regards martin _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom fri 08 aug 2008 115737 0200 pythondev pep 8 discourage named lambdas