On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:30 PM Alexey Muranov <alexey.mura...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On jeu., mars 28, 2019 at 8:57 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > > Throwing the name away is foolish. Testing functions is another > > situation in which function names are needed for proper report. > > My idea however was to have it as an exact synonyme of an assignment of > a lambda. Assignment is an assignment, it should not modify the > attributs of the value that is being assigned.
There could perhaps be a special case for lambda expressions such that, when they are directly assigned to a variable, Python would use the variable name as the function name. I expect this could be accomplished by a straightforward transformation of the AST, perhaps even by just replacing the assignment with a def statement. Since this could just as easily be applied to lambda though, I'm afraid it doesn't offer much of a case for the "f(x)" syntactic sugar. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
