[Python-ideas] YAML (yet-another-multiline-lambda)

[Antony Lee]

I'm sorry I raised the inline class idea, which is distracting the main 
issue here -- inline functions (again, all I wanted to do was to point out 
the syntactic similarity).

I certainly don't think that creating bound methods through __get__ is a 
particularly recognized idiom (although one may note that descriptors were 
(I believe) introduced exactly for that purpose); on the other hand as I 
mentioned earlier I don't really see the need for binding lambdas to 
objects in the first place.

Antony

On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 12:57:46 AM UTC-7, Andrew Barnert wrote:
>
> On Oct 22, 2013, at 12:13, Antony Lee <anntz... at gmail.com <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
>
> > Also, if you really need to bind the first variable and don't want to 
> use partial, you can also use __get__, which exactly creates bound methods: 
> (lambda x: x).__get__(1)() ==> 1. 
>
> Do you think this is something that most Python users would understand 
> today, or do you think Python would be a better language if it were a 
> recognized idiom? 
>
> I'll answer the other part when I'm in front of a computer. 
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