[Python-ideas] Ruby-style Blocks in Python Idea

[tav]

Hey Steven,

> Can you explain why:
>   func(named_function)
> is radically different from:
>   func(multi-line-code-block-without-the-name)

Hmz, the intention isn't to support multi-line lambdas. It's to make
passing in anonymous functions easier.

For precedence let's take a look at decorators. Fundamentally,
decorators save a user nothing more than a single line of code.

Why do @foo, when you could just do: func = foo(func) ?

But saving developers that extra line of typing has obviously been
useful -- you can find decorators used pretty heavily in many of the
major Python frameworks nowadays...

By easing up some of the hassle, we can encourage certain forms of development.

-- 
love, tav

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