Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com>: > Please don't add multiline lambdas to Python.
Agree. > Multiline lambdas give rise (in a big way) to the > computer-language-equivalent of run-on sentences. Lambdas are perfect in Scheme because they are idiomatic in it. They carry a visual meaning and flow nicely with the parentheses and the indentation. Multiline lambdas would look out of place in Python. Also, they don't buy you anything functionality-wise or expressivity-wise. Lambdas are visually absolutely horrible in Java (which doesn't need them) and C++ (which is in dire need of them). However, it would appear lambdas are all in the rage among programming languages, and I could think of far worse fads (XML, shudder). So it may be that Python will eventually have to give in to multiline lambdas because of the marketing pressure. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
