Re: [Python-ideas] a new lambda syntax

Michael Foord writes:

I accept that it is a necessary restriction in Python

I agree with your point that it is a restriction. But the connotation of "necessary" that it would be desirable to relax it if there were a good syntax, I don't know about that. Up to about ten years ago, I used lambda in Lisp code a lot. Since then I've found that use cases are being pried from my grasp one by one. I find nowadays that even one-liners that are simply currying a multiargument function are more readable when defined as named functions.