[Python-Dev] Use an empty def as a lambda

[R. David Murray]

On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:55:20 -0500, Ryan <rymg19 at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Westley Martínez" <anikom15 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >'def' is no more ambiguous than 'lambda', and is in fact more
> >ambiguous,
> >for 'def' doesn't lend itself to anything other than the word define,
> >whilst 'lambda' can only mean lambda function.  Calling def explicit is
> >silly.  It only makes sense because def arbitrarily means a function in
> >Python (I'm proposing def become func or proc in Python 4000).
>
> Change def to func? That's the worst idea I've heard yet. Def is
> already there; why break all existing code just for a word?

Note that whatever happens with Python4, breaking of backward
compatibility (by anything other than the deletion of cruft) is very
unlikely to be part of it.

--David