On Feb 16, 7:38 pm, Casey Hawthorne <caseyhhammer_t...@istar.ca> wrote: > Interesting talk on Python vs. Ruby and how he would like Python to > have just a bit more syntactic flexibility. > > http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/02/python-vs-ruby-a-battle-to-the-de... > -- > Regards, > Casey
Gary's friend Geoffrey Grosenbach says in his blog post (which Gary linked to): "Python has no comparable equivalent to Ruby’s do end block. Python lambdas are limited to one line and can’t contain statements (for, if, def, etc.). Which leaves me wondering, what’s the point?" I'm sorry, lambda's do support if's and for's. Also, lambda's are expressions, not statements, but you can pass them around, keep them in a dictionary if you want to. And if you need more than one line of statements, for crying out loud use a def? And who needs those "do- end" blocks anyway, trying to turn Python into Pascal? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
