[Python-ideas] Where-statement (Proposal for function expressions)

[Ben Finney]

Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> writes:

> In a sense, the where-block is in part an attempt to extend the
> assignment statement so that the "right hand side" can span more than
> one statement.

That pretty much spells its doom, then. The BDFL is quite firm (as
demonstrated in, e.g., the pronouncement against multi-line lambda
<URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3099/>) that multi-statement
expressions are verboten.

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Ben Finney