it might just be a detail, but Python does not even have
single-statement lambdas. The body of a lambda is an expression
yielding a value, not a statement.
Function languages (from which the idea of the Lambda in Python
probably came from) do not have statements at all. Something like the
example with "y = x+1; y*2" given earlier is usually expressed as a
let-expression, which is syntactic sugar for a lambda itself. Hence,
the example could actually be written in Python like so (I am not
saying it is beautiful, but just that it is possible ^_^):
arr.map( lambda x: (lambda y:y*2)(x+1) )
Or, if you prefer (this seems to me to be syntactically very close to
the original):
arr.map( lambda x: (lambda y=x+1: y*2)() )
Moreover, in Python 3.8, we will have assignments in expressions, and
(even though I obviously can't test this) I wonder if you could then
write the same thing as:
arr.map( lambda x: (y := x+1, y*2)[1] )
I guess, the original request is therefore not really about having
multi-statement lambdas, but more about extending lambdas to anonymous
functions with the possibility to have full statements inside the body.
Finally, I absolutely agree with that good naming is paramount for
understandable code. But IMHO, good naming means that I write a small
/named/ function (describing its intent) if its body contains more
than just a simple expression, anyway.
Cheers,
Tobias
Quoting Anders Hovmöller <bo...@killingar.net>:
A powerful general purpose language should not limit itself to one
statement in a closure.
Nitpick on language: It doesn't. Lambdas are not the only way to do
a closure.
It's important to be precise when discussing these things.
Lets add mutli-statement lambdas to python either with just curly
braces or with an indent based machine.
Mostly it's just better with a function. Do you have some more
compelling examples where you can't use a function smoothly?
/ Anders
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