[Python-3000] A plea for anonymous functions

[Talin]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Talin wrote:
> 
>> I expect to see a series of special-case syntactical work-arounds that 
>> compensate for the lack of such a feature.
> 
> yeah, because the "special-case syntactical work-arounds" are care-
> fully designed to be *usable* for a well-defined group of *practical* 
> problems.  it's about HCI, not CS.
> 
> please get over this "all I have is a hammer that my CS teacher told
> me to use" mode of thinking; we're designing for humans, not wannabe 
> language designers who believe in "the one true mechanism".  there are 
> plenty of other reli^h^h^h^hlanguages for that kind of thinking.

I've never taken a CS course BTW - the only formal training I've had was 
in the Air Force, in 1976, where I learned assembly language, Fortran, 
and COBOL :)

So be careful what assumptions you make here :)

-- Talin