Replacement for lambda - 'def' as an expression?

[Sybren Stuvel]

talin at acm dot org enlightened us with:
> I'd be sad to see the notion of "anonymous functions" go

Same here. I think it's a beautyful concept, and very powerful. It
also allows for dynamic function creation in cases where a name would
not be available.

> What about passing an anonymous function as an argument, which is
> the most common case?

I don't really like that. The syntax is way too messy. Just the

    funcref = def(args):
        ...

syntax would suffice for me.

Sybren
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