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76 | Lambda forms (lambda expressions) have the same syntactic position as | |
77 | expressions. They are a shorthand to create anonymous functions; the | |
78 | expression <code>lambda <var>arguments</var>: <var>expression</var></code> | |
79 | yields a function object. The unnamed object behaves like a function | |
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