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[bearophile]

Jacob Carlborg:

> Why not use proper lambdas instead of strings?

Mostly for personal reasons: quoted strings are sometimes a 
little shorter, and they require you to use arguments with 
default names (as "a" and "b"), this increased standardization 
makes me read them a little faster than lambdas that have varying 
argument names. If I see q{a + b} I don't need to go look what a 
and b are, for me it's a "standard" sum, like one to be used by a 
reduce().

It's a bit like the "pointfree" style in Haskell 
(http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Pointfree ), also named 
"tacit" in other languages, where you don't name input variables; 
that if overused makes the code unreadable, but if used a bit and 
wisely allows you to underline the transformations done on the 
data instead of on the (sometimes arbitrary) names you give to 
parts of generic data.

Bye,
bearophile