Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to have just a bit more syntactic flexibility.

[Jonathan Gardner]

On Feb 17, 12:02 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <l... at geek-
central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
> In message
> <8ca440b2-6094-4b35-80c5-81d000517... at v20g2000prb.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> > I used to think anonymous functions (AKA blocks, etc...) would be a
> > nice feature for Python.
>
> > Then I looked at a stack trace from a different programming language
> > with lots of anonymous functions. (I believe it was perl.)
>
> Didn’t it have source line numbers in it?
>
> What more do you need?

I don't know, but I tend to find the name of the function I called to
be useful. It's much more memorable than line numbers, particularly
when line numbers keep changing.

I doubt it's just me, though.