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

Thomas Lotze thomas at thomas-lotze.de
Tue Feb 7 09:52:02 CET 2006

Jiwon Seo wrote:

After lambda being made more useful, can I hope that I will be able to use lambda with multiple statements? :) Lambdas in Lisp and Python are different, but in the usability perspective they don't need to differ too much.

I don't think it helps usability much if anonymous functions are allowed multiple statements. IMO greater amounts of code deserve a named function for readability's sake, and the distinction between expressions and suites feels like a good criterion for what is a greater amount of code. In any case, it's the same limit as found in list and generator expressions or the proposed conditional expression.

-- Thomas

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