Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

John Roth johnroth at ameritech.net
Wed Jul 31 16:31:48 EDT 2002


"Huaiyu Zhu" <huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:slrnakgake.6hf.huaiyu at gauss.almadan.ibm.com...
> John Roth <johnroth at ameritech.net> wrote:
> >
> >> For vertical scoping, it is not necessary to separate items with
> >commas.
> >
> >Is this valid Python in general, or is this another change to the
> >syntax?
>
> It's just what I think is necessary.  I'm not sure if it fits the
> current python parser, although it appears to be so for existing
> structures like def, class, if, while.

It certainly looks nice, but I think it's a change to the
syntax for list and dictionary constructors, which
is a different issue.

John Roth
>
> Huaiyu





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