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

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Fri Feb 10 03:07:28 CET 2006

On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:27:35 -0800, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

[Bengt, on lambda :: suite]

Since you probably won't stop until I give you an answer: I'm really not interested in a syntactic solution that allows multi-line lambdas. I don't think the complexity (in terms of users needing to learn them) is worth it. So please stop (as several people have already asked you). There's some text somewhere in the guidelines for python developers on when to know when to give up. Read it. :-) Thank you. I give up ;-) I will try to find it and read it.

But no fair tempting the weak with """ It's a hard problem ... For example, consider this hypothetical example: ... """ ;-)

Regards, Bengt Richter

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