Hello,
On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 09:35:58 -0500
Richard Damon <rich...@damon-family.org> wrote:
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> My first thought to the idea of making an alternate syntax is the line
> from the Zen:
>
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
> Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
>
> This says that if the 'arrow' is a new alternate way of writing
> lambda, then lambda needs to be, at least informally, deprecated and
> declared not to be that obvious way to do it (but it can't be
> actually removed for a long time for backwards compatibility reasons).
No more than "+" deprecates __add__, or vice-versa. And no more than
various pop-up novelties (we now have more than one) deprecate sacred
'"%s" % var' syntax.
> Note, I thought that lambda was currently 'multi-line', it just isn't
> multi-statement, just a single expression, that could flow to
> following lines (and since often used inside a function call, being
> inside the '(' makes the continuation to the next line automatic)
Yes, people who colloquially say "multi-line", formally mean
multi-statement. (Alternatively, they mean "multi-line without tricks".)
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Best regards,
Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com
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