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Nick Craig-Wood wrote: > Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The current snapshot is a transitional Python and thus >> with some double features. The numerical types and two kinds of >> classes are examples. I'm very surprised about this, because Python >> is a production language, but I'm happy, too. > > > As long as python 2.x -> 3.x/3000 isn't like perl 5.x -> perl 6.x I'll > be perfectly happy too. > > "Less is more" is a much better philosophy for a language and having > the courage to take things out differentiates python from the crowd. > > Of course we users will complain about removals, but we'll knuckle > down and take our medicine eventually ;-) > Except that in this case, removal will also complicate code in some cases. Consider this fragment of Tkinter logic: UI.CmdBtn.menu.add_command(label="MyLabel", command=lambda cmd=cmdkey: CommandMenuSelection(cmd)) Would it not be the case that, without lambda, we will need to pollute the name space with a bunch of specialized little functions for each and every construct like this? -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list