Guido van Rossum wrote: > After so many attempts to come up with an alternative for lambda, > perhaps we should admit defeat. I've not had the time to follow the > most recent rounds, but I propose that we keep lambda, so as to stop > wasting everybody's talent and time on an impossible quest. > The inline anonymous `def` isn't as ugly/problematic as the block (block anonymous def) version, and could probably work better than lambda, I think (a bit more verbose, but at least it doesn't feel like a castrated function definition, is more coherent with the existing function definition syntax, and accepts more than a single statement... well that last part probably isn't a pro arguments...).
Couldn't it be enabled (as an inline construct only) to replace the current lambda? _______________________________________________ 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
