geremy condra wrote:
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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Also to stop the pointless discussions about anonymous blocks (though that may have been naive :-).
-- --Guido van Rossum
Tell everybody that proposes it to show you the code. 99% of them will STFU, and it's probably worth a little bit of time to see what the other 1% come up with, even if its never going to get in. Worst case scenario, you've spared yourself the headache of dealing with people who can't (or won't) help you implement what they so urgently desire. Best case scenario, maybe you even get a great feature out of it.
There's no point telling people to produce code for a design that isn't acceptable in the first place. No anonymous block proposal has ever even made it past the first hurdle of being better in concept than a named function (which do have their downsides, but those have always been looked minor when compared to the downsides of the proposed additions). Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------