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

Jiwon Seo seojiwon at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 02:22:31 CET 2006

On 2/8/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

On 2/8/06, Patrick Collison <patrick at collison.ie> wrote: > And to think that people thought that keeping "lambda", but changing > the name, would avoid all the heated discussion... :-)

Note that I'm not participating in any attempts to "improve" lambda.

Then, is there any chance anonymous function - or closure - is supported in python 3.0 ? Or at least have a discussion about it?

(IMHO, closure is very handy for function like map, sort etc. And having to write a function for multiple statement is kind of good in that function name explains what it does. However, I sometimes feel that having no name at all is clearer. Also, having to define a function when it'll be used only once seemed inappropriate sometimes.)

or is there already discussion about it (and closed)?

-Jiwon

-Jiwon

Just about the only improvement I'd like to see is to add parentheses around the arguments, so you'd write lambda(x, y): x**y instead of lambda x, y: x**y. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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