PEP 312 (and thus 308) implemented with a black magic trick

[Erik Max Francis]

Michele Simionato wrote:

> Notice that instead of the proposed colon notation for PEP 312
> (:x as a shortcut for lambda :x) I use a tilde notation:
> 
> ~x as a shortcut for lambda :x
> 
> This means that I am changing the semantics of the unary operator
> "~", which is a Bad Thing: but as I said, this is dirty trick ;)

How does this suggestion different from the use of a single colon in PEP
312, except that this invalidates a previously existing legitimate
behavior?  It has exactly the same benefits and drawbacks of PEP 312,
except with the introduction of an additional drawback.

Furthermore, if you change the meaning of ~, what operator now becomes
used to represent bitwise negation?

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