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ShardPhoenix comments on Learning programming: so I've learned the basics of Python, what next? - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: ChrisHallquist 17 June 2013 11:31PM

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Comment author: ShardPhoenix 19 June 2013 03:37:24AM *  0 points [-]

The inability to pass functions as arguments without creating a class for them is one of the annoying parts. Maybe some syntactic sugar will be (or recently has been?) added.

Java 8 (currently scheduled for March 2014) is adding proper lambdas.