On Sun, 2013-05-19 at 20:58 -0500, C Anthony Risinger wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Lex Berezhny <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>         You are right, I meant to say anonymous functions.
>         
>         
>         I think it's a shame that Guido refuses to add this. Almost
>         all modern languages have anonymous functions. It's almost a
>         standard when you are dealing with frameworks and environments
>         that require callbacks.
> 
> 
> there really isn't anything about python's impl (or lack thereof, if
> you wish) that makes it any more/less useful than what you get from
> JS/Ruby etc; the concept of an "anonymous function" is really just
> that, a function that does not have an implicit name, but beyond that,
> it's just a function like any other.
> 
> 
> personally, i would agree with Guido in that python *doesn't* need
> them 

I'm also not impressed by the introduction of anon funcs in dart (as
opposed to python). I do really miss the idea of a yield statement in
dart (and if I'm correct, the idea of generators in general). On the
other hand, the idea of isolators is interesting (esp. in a browser
context).



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