Statespressions? (Re: Draft Pep (was: Re: Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!))

[Emile van Sebille]

Greg Ewing
> Applying some wild lateral thinking here, maybe what we
> want is not a way of writing def statements in the middle
> of expressions, but a way of writing expressions that
> allows them to include statements.
> 
> Suppose you could write something like
> 
>    dict callbacks:
> 
>      def "case a"():
>        ...
> 
>      def "case b"():
>        ...
> 
>      def "case c"():
>        ...
> 

Supposing you can, and continuing laterally off the page...

Except for the dict and implied indent level, isn't this a module?

import callbacks
callbacks = callbacks.__dict__
callbacks['case a']

 
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Emile van Sebille
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