[Python-Dev] Adventures with ASTs - Inline Lambda (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Feb 18 19:11:43 CET 2006

Talin wrote:

skip at pobox.com wrote:

talin> ... whereas with 'given' you can't be certain when to stop talin> parsing the argument list.

So require parens around the arglist: (x*y given (x, y)) Skip

I would not be opposed to mandating the parens, and its an easy enough change to make. The patch on SF lets you do it both ways, which will give people who are interested a chance to get a feel for the various alternatives.

Another ambiguity is that when they're optional it is unclear whether or not adding them means the callable now expects a tuple argument (i.e., doubled parens at the call site). If they're mandatory, then it is clear that only doubled parentheses at the definition point require doubled parentheses at the call site (this is, not coincidentally, exactly the same rule as applies for normal functions).

I realize of course that this is a moot point. But perhaps I can help to winnow down the dozens of rejected lambda replacement proposals to just a few rejected lamda proposals :)

Heh.

Cheers, Nick.

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