[Python-Dev] Use an empty def as a lambda (original) (raw)

Xavier Morel catch-all at masklinn.net
Thu Sep 19 23:21:11 CEST 2013

On 2013-09-19, at 23:17 , Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 20 Sep 2013 07:04, "Joe Pinsonault" <joe.pinsonault at gmail.com> wrote:

I think it's a great idea personally. It's explicit and obvious. "lamda" is too computer sciencey This suggestion has been made many times, occasionally with the associated "must be contained in parentheses when used as an expression" caveat that is needed to avoid making the language grammar ambiguous at the statement level.

Examples of some of these times:

https://wiki.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060415.html https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/thread.html#60415

Unless significant new insight is developed or Guido has picked the functional bug at dropbox, merely suggesting a name change from lambda to def (which has already been suggested in the past) probably isn't going to cut it.

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