Steven D'Aprano wrote:

Weeble wrote:

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Would this be crazy? Make this:

def spam(a,b,c)(d,e,f): [BODY]

a synonym for:

def spam(a,b,c): def spam2(d,e,f): [BODY] return spam2

As far as I can tell, it would always be illegal syntax right now, so it seems a safe change. And it would make it cleaner to write higher order functions.

I don't think it would. Your proposed syntax is only useful in the case that the outer function has no doc string and there's no pre-processing or post-processing of the inner function, including decorators.

Fair enough. I knew I must be overlooking something. Sturla Molden wrote:

This is atrocious.

:'( Sorry. I thought it might be a bit of a crazy idea. I didn't think it was that bad!