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lvass on Oct 8, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Python leads Tiobe Index for first time in 20 year...

The point is it's only complicated in Python. In other languages, like Rust, it's idiomatic.

agumonkey on Oct 8, 2021 [–]

People all know lambdas are expressions only, it's not a biggie really. In all honesty you rarely inline complex lambdas with all you mentioned, it would become hard to read or debug.

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