Nick Coghlan wrote: > > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > But as long as we are describing the > > present state we should call a spade a spade, etc. > > I guess I take a syntactic view of the status quo, because, while > lambdas may be implemented as anonymous functions, the current syntax > doesn't let me *write* an arbitrary function as a lambda.
You can write anything as a lambda, but it may not be easy. > Regardless, I believe the balance will eventually tip in some > direction - either lambdas disappear entirely, become able support > full anonymous functions, or else the idea of a 'deferred expression' > becomes a defining characteristic, rather than a syntactic quirk. I would put my money on the latter rather than the former. The moment functions start moving beyond a line or so is when they usually start begging for a name. - Josiah _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
