On Wednesday, January 14, 2015 at 11:55:11 PM UTC-6, Yawar Amin wrote: > First off, to each reader--if you believe that 'multi- > line' lambdas are no good and we can just use functions, > decorators, &c. to accomplish everything in Python, > advance warning: this post will annoy you.
Well i'm not religious in that way, but i can tell you that you'd be hard pressed to find a subject that did *NOT* annoy someone in this group. Heck, it might even be something like finding a "holy grail" if we all agreed! > Now, the crux of my message. I have implemented what I > believe is a fairly robust, if ugly-looking, native Python > module made up of combinator functions which compose > together to form function expressions (well, callable > expressions). Oh my, that's atrocious! (but kudos for trying!). If you have not already done so, i would suggest you play around with the Ruby language -- for which anonymous blocks are quite prevalent. I myself have lamented the limited power and expressiveness of Python's anonymous functions. It's almost as though Python lambda's are barely worth having since they are so crippled. Of course the majority will say "that is because people would use them for stupid things"... well, i've seen Python used for stupid things -- how are they going to reconcile that?. These types of excuses are based purely on religious or fascist thinking, and nothing more. :-( -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
