Re: "no variable or argument declarations are necessary."

On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 10:18:24 -0700, Donn Cave <donn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
>In the functional language approach I'm familiar with, you
>introduce a variable into a scope with a bind -
>
> let a = expr in
> ... do something with a
>
>and initialization is part of the package. Type is usually
>inferred. The kicker though is that the variable is never
>reassigned. In the ideal case it's essentially an alias for
>the initializing expression. That's one possibility we can
>probably not find in Python's universe.
>
how would you compare that with
lambda a=expr: ... do something (limited to expression) with a
?

Regards,
Bengt Richter
.