Securing a future for anonymous functions in Python

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:00:31 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>Paul Rubin wrote:
> > Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> writes:
> > 
> >>Anyway, I'm looking for feedback on a def-based syntax that came up in
> >>a recent c.l.p discussion:
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like just an even more contorted version of lambda.  It doesn't
> > fix lambda's main deficiency which is inability to have several
> > statements in the anonymous function.
> 
> Do you consider generator expressions or list comprehensions deficient because 
> they don't allow several statements in the body of the for loop?
> 

    >>> (foo + bar
    ...     for foo in range(13) if foo % 3 == 2
    ...     for bar in range(16, 23) if 2 <= bar % 5 < 4)
    <generator object at 0xb7dec10c>
    >>> 

  Hmm.  Two for loops and two if clauses.  That's four altogether.  
Does that qualify as "several"? :) Sure, they're not statements 
according to the grammar, but that's entirely beside the point.

  Jp