On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 10:06:34 PM UTC-5, Rick Johnson wrote: > [...] > 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!
Ha! Indeed. And here I was thinking that Python's Holy Grail would be finding a good multi-line lambda :-) > 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. Yes, I've been very impressed by Ruby's æsthetics. Matz did something with Ruby that few other people were willing to do: he followed expression semantics to its logical conclusion. People (including myself) have asked if we could have that in Python, but as I understand it Python has some strict newline and indent requirements that prevent it. > 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. I guess they are crippled from the perspective of a functional programmer. But they work pretty well for their intended uses. And as I mentioned, if your editor masks the keyword and displays the symbol, they almost look natural in the code. Regards, Yawar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
