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

Morel Xavier xavier.morel at masklinn.net
Sun Feb 5 19:43:04 CET 2006

Guido van Rossum 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. The inline anonymous def isn't as ugly/problematic as the block (block anonymous def) version, and could probably work better than lambda, I think (a bit more verbose, but at least it doesn't feel like a castrated function definition, is more coherent with the existing function definition syntax, and accepts more than a single statement... well that last part probably isn't a pro arguments...).

Couldn't it be enabled (as an inline construct only) to replace the current lambda?

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