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by tpoacher 2021 days ago
nitpicking, but this is not a lambda. it's an anonymous function.
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Care to elaborate?
A lambda, at least as understood in a functional programming context, is pure.

Whereas what is proposed here is simply syntactic sugar for creating an anonymous function; from the little that is said in the announcement there is no reason to think this syntax would provide any guarantees that state changes due to lexical scoping won't affect the function's output.