Special keyword argument lambda syntax
Rhodri James
rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk
Sat Mar 14 19:44:25 EDT 2009
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:39:16 -0000, Scott David Daniels
<Scott.Daniels at acm.org> wrote:
> The original proposal was initially appealing to me until I saw this
> comment. That means a relatively "invisible typo" would turn into good
> syntax. Possibley this is exactly what Rhodri James is talking about,
> but just to be explicit, one of these is probably a mistake:
> somefun(something, key(x)==5)
> somefun(something, key(x)=5)
> Right now a syntax error makes you look there, after your extension,
> only test cases will show these problems.
Oo, no, I'd missed that! Good catch.
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