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

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Sat Jul 18 04:54:10 CEST 2009


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

> Ben Finney wrote:
> 
> > I haven't found that any of the examples improve the clarity of the
> > code over using a named function.
> 
> This isn't about unnamed functions. The functions defined in a where
> block still have names.

So this is about introducing a new syntax for named functions? That
drives it even further from clarity, in my estimation.

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