On 10/21/2018 12:06 PM, Andreas Winschu wrote:
There was an extensive discussion about this in the past.
And perhaps 20 other threads, now including this one.
In the end Guido felt that his effort seems to him like building a Rube Goldberg machine.
By looking at the amount of people still stumbling on this issue
What I have seen for 20 years on python-list and perhaps 5 on Stackoverflow is beginners repeatedly stumbling on properly writing and using lambda expressions as they are.
we definitely feel, that it is not the.
?? The royal 'we'??
"Naming things" was from the beginning one the two hardest things in programming.
I completely disagree. I would put naming maybe 20th. Perhaps this explains why you would want anonymous multiline functions while I think they are a foolish idea.
Guido had a hard opinion on this, but i hope the python community does not.
Hah. If I were the new BDFL, I would be tempted to ban further discussion. However, your revelation about how you have a difficulty with naming that I do not helps explain our different viewpoints. -- Terry Jan Reedy