things I wish python could do

[rzed]

Daniel 'Dang' Griffith <noemail at noemail4u.com> wrote in
news:e2f2f1d66757198e867abb285277d0b5 at news.teranews.com: 

> On Thu, 13 May 2004 12:35:48 -0400, "Terry Reedy"
> <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
[...]
>>Lambda expressions in Python are strictly an abbreviation for
>>functions with a trivial body ('return expression'), nothing
>>more.  Anonymity is a wart, not a feature.  The keyword is, to
>>me, a mistake because of the false expectations it stimulates.
> 
> Maybe lambda should be renamed as lameda?  ;-)

Or: lambada -- the forbidden function.

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