proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?)

Dan Stromberg drsalists at gmail.com
Fri Aug 22 19:48:41 EDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:55 AM,  <icefapper at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, just wanting to do a shot in the dark,but maybe this syntax is Pythonic (in a "we-are-all-grown-ups" fashion, ahem)enough to get its way into the language
> this is what yours truly thinks: don't we all know that ":" means the next token must be an indent (mostly)? and doesn't the "(" and its alikes, [ and } begin an space-insensitive lexing context? so all we need is having an "space-sensitivity-stack" and the corresponding "(" counting stack and this way we could match opening and closing "()" and pop the space-sensitivity-stack whenever the "(" counting stack gets a 0 at the top:



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