[Python-ideas] a new lambda syntax

[Masklinn]

On 20 Oct 2009, at 00:00 , Nick Coghlan wrote:
>
> However, for Python, the idea of having anonymous blocks runs headlong
> into the use of indentation for block delineation.
I'm not sure that's the case, Haskell uses indentation for block  
delineation too and doesn't (as far as I know, I might be wrong)  
impose further restrictions on anonymous functions than on named ones.

Though this might have to do with…

> You have to […] embed significant whitespace inside an expression  
> rather than
> only having it between statements.
>
haskell only dealing with expressions and not with statements, thus  
"blocks" are expressions and it doesn't have to deal with a mismatch  
between statements and expressions.