On 25 January 2014 15:41, Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: > Brett Cannon wrote: >> >> >> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com >> <mailto:r...@rachum.com>> wrote: >> >> lambda (x, y): whatever >> >> http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-3113/ > > > Part of the rationale in that PEP is that argument unpacking > can always be replaced by an explicitly named argument and > an unpacking assignment. No mention is made of the fact that > you can't do this in a lambda, giving the impression that > lambdas are deemed second-class citizens that are not worth > consideration.
Given that lambdas only just escaped being removed entirely from the language in Python 3, that impression isn't wrong. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
