Securing a future for anonymous functions in Python

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Thu Dec 30 09:00:31 EST 2004


Paul Rubin wrote:
> Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> writes:
> 
>>Anyway, I'm looking for feedback on a def-based syntax that came up in
>>a recent c.l.p discussion:
> 
> 
> Looks like just an even more contorted version of lambda.  It doesn't
> fix lambda's main deficiency which is inability to have several
> statements in the anonymous function.

Do you consider generator expressions or list comprehensions deficient because 
they don't allow several statements in the body of the for loop?

Cheers,
Nick.

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