Doug Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steven Bethard wrote:
> > Simo Melenius wrote:
> >> map (def x:
Oops, I found a typo alreay. I meant to write "def (x):" -- no name
for anonymous functions but just the argument list, please :)
> Right the comma plus other things make this difficult for a parser to
> handle correctly. Other people have already come up with working
It is difficult since in Python we don't enjoy the ugly luxury of
stuffing statements inside {}s. But as Bengt pointed out, parentheses
don't actually look bad at all in this case.
> Then the multi-line way. I had to add an overload of map to support
> reversing the order of parameters (list first, then the closure):
>
> newlist = map([1,2,3,4,5,6]) def (x as int):
> return x*x*x
That doesn't seem to scale if you want to pass more than one anonymous
function arguments to the function or call an arbitrary function with
parameters in arbitrary order.
br,
S
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