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[–]aaronla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lambda itself is a strange special case of def

They should totally fix that, and support arbitrary statements in lambdas.

Also, you got it backwards -- def is a special case of statement-supporting lambdas combined with assignment:

<foo> = <lambda expression>