Python's simplicity philosophy

[Georgy Pruss]

"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message news:sIqdnYBZtKIYFiSi4p2dnA at comcast.com...
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| "Alex Martelli" <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message
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| > > How about a very hypothetical (post ``==repr deprecation)
| > > results = sequence..map(`x+23`)
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| > How would this notation imply that x is an argument rather than,
| > say, a global?
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| The above was a minimal 'concept' proposal to test the aesthetics of
| something structurally different from current 'lambda's.  I think I
| would make all identifiers params by default, since I believe this to
| be more common, and 'tag' non-locals, perhaps with one of the
| reserved, as yet unused symbols.  Example: lambda x: x + y == `x + @y`
| or `x+y@`.   Since expressions cannot assign, no global declaration is
| needed.
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| Terry

Or maybe
  lambda x: x + y == `x: x + y`

G-: