+1On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 4:19 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
Okay, here’s my dilemma. It looks like this thread wants to devise a new syntax for lambda, using e.g. (x, y) -> x+y, or the same with =>. That’s great, but doesn’t open new vistas. OTOH, for people using type annotations, a much more pressing issue is an alternative for typing.Callable that is more readable, and supports extra features that Callable doesn’t, like keyword args, varargs, and pos-only.
FWIW, I *do not* want an alternate spelling for lambda.
+1
If your time machine were still working, and you could go back to 1991 to change the spelling, yes I might like that. For that matter, if someone had a good spelling for multi-line lambdas, I might like that. Or *maybe* some other difference in behavior, but nothing comes immediately to mind.
+1.
But allowing a few cryptic punctuation symbols to express an anonymous function while still retaining "the name of a cryptic greek letter" to do exactly the same thing seems like a strong non-goal.
That said, if I had to look at one, I'd like '->' much better than '=>'.
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