[Python-ideas] Multi Statement Lambdas

[Anders Hovmöller]

> Wheres a lambda expression can be passed anonymously to any other function as an argument.
> 
> map(lambda x: x**2, array)
> 
> vs 
> 
> def powers2(x)
>    x**2
> map(powers2, array)
> 
> Coming up with a name here is not needed, as the operation is expressive enough. 

Sure, but there is a well known convention for such non-names already: meta syntactical variables. In this case the name could be "foo" and all readers will interpret this as "no name". 

I admit to have wanted lambdas that are just as powerful as normal functions, but often when I want it the code is nicer when a normal function is used. 

/ Anders
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