Lambda as declarative idiom (was RE: what is lambda used for in real code?)

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 10:20:34 EST 2005


Roman Suzi wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Steven Bethard wrote:
> 
> 
>>Roman Suzi wrote:
>>
>>>I wish lambdas will not be deprecated in Python but the key to that is
>>>dropping the keyword (lambda). If anybody could think of a better syntax for
>>>lambdas _with_ arguments, we could develop PEP 312 further.
>>
>>Some suggestions from recent lambda threads (I only considered the ones
>>that keep lambda as an expression):
> 
> Wow! Is there any wiki-page these could be put on?

It's now on:

http://www.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax

and I added Bengt Richter's and your recent suggestions.

Steve



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