On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 22:09:49 -0500, Terry Reedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "Adam DePrince" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In sort, we must preserve the ability to create an anonymous function
> > simply because we can do so for every other object type, and functions
> > are not special enough to permit this special case.
>
> Please show me how to create an anonymous type, module, or class,
> especially with an expression. Number, sequences, and dicts have easily
> printable values. Functions, like classes and module do not*, so
> definition names act as a standin and as a pointer to the source code that
> produced the object. If functions are not special relative to classes and
> modules, which is the grouping they belong with, then we should get rid of
> lambda ;-)
>>> print type('<anon>', (object,), {'foo': lambda self: 'spam'})().foo()
spam
Jp
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