On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:00:31 +1000, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Paul Rubin wrote: > > Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>Anyway, I'm looking for feedback on a def-based syntax that came up in > >>a recent c.l.p discussion: > > > > > > Looks like just an even more contorted version of lambda. It doesn't > > fix lambda's main deficiency which is inability to have several > > statements in the anonymous function. > > Do you consider generator expressions or list comprehensions deficient > because > they don't allow several statements in the body of the for loop? >
>>> (foo + bar ... for foo in range(13) if foo % 3 == 2 ... for bar in range(16, 23) if 2 <= bar % 5 < 4) <generator object at 0xb7dec10c> >>> Hmm. Two for loops and two if clauses. That's four altogether. Does that qualify as "several"? :) Sure, they're not statements according to the grammar, but that's entirely beside the point. Jp -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list