a = b = 1 just syntactic sugar?

Michele Simionato mis6 at pitt.edu
Sun Jun 8 08:15:10 EDT 2003


"Terry Reedy" <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote in message news:<tSudnREsGaCHsX-jXTWcoA at comcast.com>...> 

> So if we are to make special syntactic rules for lambda, I would like
> to make them less powerful by restricting the expression body to
> lambda-less expressions

Cool! Unfortunately, this cannot be done because it would break existing
code (most of it in Python obfuscated code contests ;-). Anyway, it is
a nice idea and I like it!


                                                     Michele




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