Terry Reedy wrote: > I also suspect that the years of fuss over Python's lambda being what it is > rather that what it is 'supposed' to be (and is in other languages) but is > not, has encourage Guido to consider just getting rid of it. I personally > might prefer keeping the feature but using a different keyword. > > Terry J. Reedy
Yes, I think a different key word would help. My current favorite alternative is to put it in parentheses similar to list comprehensions and use "let". (let x,y return x+y) Or you could just explain lambda as let, they both begin with 'L', and then the colon should be read as return. So lambda x,y: x+y should be read as: let x,y return x+y I'm in the group that hadn't heard about lambda as a function before Python even after > twenty years of computer tech experience. I think presuming it's common knowledge is a mistake. Cheers, Ron -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
