[Python-ideas] a new lambda syntax

[Ben Finney]

starwing <weasley_wx at qq.com> writes:

> Oleg Broytman 写道:
> > Single-line lambdas are good enough, and if you need more - just
> > create a named function.

> BUT, why we need a name? just to process something or make decide,
> sometimes code itself is enough.

When the code is more complex than a single expression, it's already
complex enough that defining it first and then referring to it makes for
clearer code.

> and, is there performance problems when you define a inner function in
> another function? (that's, that function will define every time you
> call the function or not?)

Measure the performance difference in your specific code base and decide
on that basis.

If there are such problems, then the lambda form won't help you: it
defines a function of exactly the same type as what ‘def’ defines.

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Ben Finney