I sing the praises of lambda, my friend and savior!

[Jeff Shannon]

Clark C. Evans wrote:

>In general, indentation is great for "outer-structure" that is, 
>delimiting large code blocks.  While delimiter based scoping is good
>for inner structures, small blocks of code.  It should not be an 
>either/or thing, one should properly have the option of using either
>option depending upon which style brings the most clarity.
>  
>

Except that the Python philosophy is that overall, the greatest clarity 
is achieved by having a single obvious way to do things.  In this 
viewpoint, there may be individual cases where delimiter-based scoping 
is clearer, but these are only local maxima; the use of a mixture of 
different styles (indentation and delimiters) will, over the entire 
corpus of Python-language programming, result in significantly less 
total clarity.

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International