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by Ideka 4448 days ago
That's not what they mean. The usage they are discussing is more like this, I believe. In a functional context, instead of doing:

    print expensive_computation(), expensive_computation()
You can do:

    (lambda x: print x, x)(expensive_computation())
Which would be equivalent to, with an imaginary let syntax:

    (let x be expensive_computation(): print x, x)