Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: Alex Martelli [mailto:aleax at aleax.it]
>         ...
> > I also personally don't think lamdas should be removed. 
> However, if a
> > lambda exceeds a (BDFL-pronounced) number of opcodes it 
> should be a syntax
> > error <0.5 wink>. This should reduce most lambdas to one or two
> > expressions.
> 
> All lambdas are alredy "reduced" to exactly one expression.  Somehow
> constraining that expression to be "simple" is a laudable 
> goal, but -- I
> dunno: it seems to me that putting further constraints, and moreover
> ones hard to verify precisely for a programmer who wants to 
> be thinking
> about Python source code, not about bytecodes that come out, is hardly
> the way of solving lambda's woes.

Indeed - I was in no way serious with the suggestion. However, I was
sideways-suggesting that lambdas should always be *short*.

Hell - I even used a <0.5 wink> which is a construct I never normally use
...

Tim Delaney