[Python-Dev] Let's just keep lambda (original) (raw)

Dennis Allison allison at shasta.stanford.edu
Sun Feb 5 22:02:37 CET 2006

+1 on retaining lambda -1 on any name change

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006, Paul Moore wrote:

On 2/5/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > After so many attempts to come up with an alternative for lambda, > perhaps we should admit defeat. I've not had the time to follow the > most recent rounds, but I propose that we keep lambda, so as to stop > wasting everybody's talent and time on an impossible quest.

+1 The recently suggested keyword change, from lambda to expr (as in '''expr x, y: x+y''') looks like an improvement to me, but I suspect opening up the possibility of a keyword change would simply restart all the discussions... (Nevertheless, I'd be +1 on lambda being renamed to expr, if it was an option). Paul.

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