[Python-ideas] Allow lambda decorators

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Feb 10 06:02:27 CET 2009


spir wrote:

> For instance, using a declaration, it may be possible to write the following loop (I do not pretend 'local' to be a good lexical choice ;-):
> 
> funcs = []
> for item in seq:
> 	local prod	# this name only is iteration specific
> 	prod = product(item)	# ==> one prod per item

My conception of the 'new' idea is that you would be able to
use it with any assignment to a bare name, so you could write

   for item in seq:
     new prod = product(item)
     ...

-- 
Greg



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