[Python-3000] genexp syntax / lambda

Boris Borcic bborcic at gmail.com
Wed Apr 19 22:06:50 CEST 2006


On 4/19/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> ...

I'll be perfectly happy to leave the matter (and the mailing list) at
that - once said that your complete wording left an unfortunate doubt
: it maybe reflects my failure to adjust the subject of the thread to
a proposal and examples that hadn't as main/only target, equivalents
to reduce().

> I haven't seen any convincing argument showing that this feature is
> useful or that the code becomes more readable when this feature is
> used [...]

BTW, what about replacing the geeky and arguably lengthy keyword
"lambda" with either :

given    - much clearer and slightly more concise; or
?         - slightly clearer and much more concise  ?

<ducks>

Boris Borcic
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