[Python-ideas] pep 312 - implicit lambdas idea

[Jan Kaliszewski]

08-08-2009 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> My suggestion for a lightweight lambda syntax is
>
>    args -> expr
>
> Examples:
>
>    map(x -> x + 5, something)
>
>    d = defauldict(->[])

-1
The idea would be nice, but "->" has already another meaning (in a
different context -- function annotations -- but it's not a good
idea to use the same "operator" for two completely different things,
both connected with functions).

*j