[Python-Dev] Recommend accepting PEP 312 -- Simple Implicit Lambda

[Kay Schluehr]

Donovan Baarda wrote:

> I must admit I ended up deleting most of the "alternative to lambda" 
> threads after they flooded my in box. So it is with some dread I post 
> this, contributing to it...

I must admit you are right. And I will stop defending my proposal 
because it seems to create nothing more than pointless polemics. 
Suggesting elements of FP to python-dev may have the same chances to be 
accepted than raising a Buddha statue in a catholic church.

> As I see it, a lambda is an anonymous function. An anonymous function is 
> a function without a name. We already have a syntax for a function... 
> why not use it. ie:
> 
>   f = filter(def (a): return a > 1, [1,2,3])

You mix expressions with statements. This is a no-go in Python. 
Permitting those constructs is a radical language change not just a 
simple syntax replacement.

Kay