Nick Coghlan wrote: >> I believe that usage of a keyword with the name of a Greek letter also >> contributes to people considering something broken. > > Aye, I agree there are serious problems with the current syntax. All > I'm > trying to say above is that I don't believe the functionality itself > is broken.
Lambda is not broken, it's restricted to single calculation and therefore of limited use. Although I wasn't too serious (should had added more signs of that), an anonymous 'def' would allow to use the full power of method definition. > At last count, Guido's stated preference was to ditch the functionality > entirely for Py3k, so unless he says something to indicate he's > changed his > mind, we'll simply need to continue with proposing functions like > methodcaller() as workarounds for its absence... Yep, we'll just have to learn to live without it. :-( / ;-) --eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
