[Python-ideas] Another way to avoid clumsy lambdas, while adding new functionality

[Cameron Simpson]

On 05Mar2014 04:06, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2014-03-05 01:46, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >>  a = $(foo + 1)
> >
> >Definitely nicer. Still irrationally uncomfortable about the "$" though.
> >A thought, though it could break existing code (and nested tuples, alas):
> >     a = (( foo + 1 ))
> >
> That's not a tuple. It's equivalent to:
>      a = foo + 1

I know that. I should have said: though the below looks nice, in more complicated forms it fights with tuples, eg:

  ((1,2,3),(4,5,6))
  (((1,2,3),(4,5,6)))

:-(
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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