c => c.City == "London" is a function returning a bool, while (c.City == "London") is just a bool. So they are different. Moreover the latter will give an error as c is an undefined variable. The reason you have to give a function is that this function has to be called for every tuple. If you would give just an expression, it is true or false depending on the value c has at the moment of the call, which has no relationship with the tuples to be inspected.
And a lambda expression is just called like other functions: f(x) where f is the name of the parameter in the definition of the called method.
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c => c.City == "London" is a function returning a bool, while (c.City == "London") is just a bool. So they are different. Moreover the latter will give an error as c is an undefined variable. The reason you have to give a function is that this function has to be called for every tuple. If you would give just an expression, it is true or false depending on the value c has at the moment of the call, which has no relationship with the tuples to be inspected.
And a lambda expression is just called like other functions: f(x) where f is the name of the parameter in the definition of the called method.