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		quietwhisper on June 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coconut – Pythonic functional programming language I know (and bemoan) that lambdas can only have a single expression returned, but can't you just use a named function? (Not as nice, I agree, but doesn't put a hard limit on FP in python.)

kd0amg on June 23, 2016 [–]

And manually closure-convert everything too?

devishard on June 23, 2016 | [–]

Python supports nested functions, so closure conversion isn't necessary.

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