[Python-Dev] anonymous blocks

[Kevin J. Butler]

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>From: Guido van Rossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com>
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>This reflects a style pattern that I've come to appreciate more
>recently: when breaking a call with a long argument list to fit on
>your screen, instead of trying to find the optimal break points in the
>argument list, take one or two of the longest arguments and put them
>in local variables. 
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>If we apply this to the anonymous block problem, we may end up finding
>lambda the ultimate compromise -- like a gentleman in the back of my
>talk last week at baypiggies observed (unfortunately I don't know his
>name).
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I like it:

  Lambda: The Ultimate Compromise

(c.f. http://library.readscheme.org/page1.html)

kb