Syntax for one-line "nonymous" functions in "declaration style"
Alexey Muranov
alexey.muranov at gmail.com
Wed Mar 27 08:27:53 EDT 2019
On mer., mars 27, 2019 at 10:10 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Mar 2019 at 08:25, Alexey Muranov
> <alexey.muranov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Whey you need a simple function in Python, there is a choice
>> between a
>> normal function declaration and an assignment of a anonymous
>> function
>> (defined by a lambda-expression) to a variable:
>>
>> def f(x): return x*x
>>
>> or
>>
>> f = lambda x: x*x
>>
>> It would be however more convenient to be able to write instead just
>>
>> f(x) = x*x
>
> Why? Is saving a few characters really that helpful? So much so that
> it's worth adding a *third* method of defining functions, which would
> need documenting, adding to training materials, etc, etc?
>
Because i think i would prefer to write it this way.
(Almost no new documentation or tutorials would be needed IMHO.)
Alexey.
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