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

[Joel Bender]

Guido van Rossum wrote:

>  @using(employees.select)
>  def _(employee):
>      if employee.salary > developer.salary:
>          fireEmployee(employee)
>      else:
>          extendContract(employee)

I personally don't mind anonymous functions, I use them when I can fit 
everything on mostly one line and they don't have any side effects. 
None of my decorators that I write actually call the function they are 
passed either.

So there could be a lambda statement...

     @using(employees.select)
     lambda employee:
         if employee.developer and employee.not_using_python:
             fireDeveloper(employee)

...which would make a function that isn't named, purely for its side 
effects.

-$0.02


Joel