On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason I don't like this replacing def isn't because the name is > necessarily lost. It's because the lack of the well-defined def > statement encourages more complex usages like > > functions['f'] = x -> x**2 > > where such implicit transformations won't work.
That's actually where this started. I mean, if a function can be called "<lambda>", why can't it be called "functions['f']"? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
