On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:33:26 -0000, MRAB <goo...@mrabarnett.plus.com>
wrote:
Rhodri James wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:49:17 -0000, Beni Cherniavsky
<beni.cherniav...@gmail.com> wrote:
Specification
=============
Allow keyword arguments in function call to take this form:
NAME ( ARGUMENTS ) = EXPRESSION
which is equivallent to the following:
NAME = lambda ARGUMENTS: EXPRESSION
except that NAME is also assigned as the function's `__name__`.
My first instinct on seeing the example was that "key(n)" was a
function *call*, not a function definition, and to remember the thread
a month or two ago about assigning to the result of a function call.
I'm inclined to think this would add confusion rather than remove it.
Guido wants to keep the syntax LL(1), so you're not the only one who has
a problem with it! :-)
I think that:
def NAME ( ARGUMENTS ): EXPRESSION
is still LL(1).
Yes, but at this point we're arguing about how to spell "lambda", and
Python's already got one perfectly good way of spelling it.
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