On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Terry Hancock wrote: > Having said that, I too will miss the *concept* of an anonymous > function, although I wouldn't mind at all if its name changed, or if it > were somehow integrated into the "def" keyword's usage. Using backticks > or some other syntax delimiter also sounds promising, although we're > sort of running out of them. ;-)
I understand that the backslash is popular in some ivory-tower functional languages. Currently, a backslash can be used for explicit line joining, and is illegal elsewhere on a line outside a string literal, so i think it's available for this. It would be utterly unpythonic to use puntuation instead of a keyword, and it would make no sense to novices, but it would scare the crap out of C programmers, which has to be worth something. tom -- [Philosophy] is kind of like being driven behind the sofa by Dr Who - scary, but still entertaining. -- Itchyfidget -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
