On 27/03/19 09:21, Alexey Muranov wrote: > Whey you need a simple function in Python, there is a choice between a > normal function declaration and an assignment of a anonymous function > (defined by a lambda-expression) to a variable: > > def f(x): return x*x > > or > > f = lambda x: x*x > > It would be however more convenient to be able to write instead just > > f(x) = x*x > > (like in Haskell and such). > > Have this idea been discussed before? > > I do not see any conflicts with the existing syntax. The following > would also work:
I don't know. Something like the following is already legal: f(x)[n] = x * n And it does something completly different. -- Antoon Pardon. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
