On 2013-09-19, at 23:17 , Nick Coghlan wrote: > On 20 Sep 2013 07:04, "Joe Pinsonault" <joe.pinsona...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I think it's a great idea personally. It's explicit and obvious. "lamda" > is too computer sciencey > > This suggestion has been made many times, occasionally with the associated > "must be contained in parentheses when used as an expression" caveat that > is needed to avoid making the language grammar ambiguous at the statement > level.
Examples of some of these times: https://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060415.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/thread.html#60415 Unless significant new insight is developed or Guido has picked the functional bug at dropbox, merely suggesting a name change from lambda to def (which has already been suggested in the past) probably isn't going to cut it. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
