[Python-ideas] a new lambda syntax

[Masklinn]

On 20 Oct 2009, at 13:49 , Oleg Broytman wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:34:11PM +0200, Masklinn wrote:
>> Now Smalltalk probably went a
>> bit too far for most people, even 30 years later
>
>   This is The Reason Number Two
Erm… what was reason number one?

> - there have to be a balance between what
> features are accepted in the language and what are rejected. Python
> developers decided that anonymous code blocks are allowed in a few  
> special
> places and are forbidden generally.
Have they? I've seen the decision that anonymous functions generally  
aren't allowed to be useful, but there are anonymous code blocks  
everywhere. You just can't pass them around.