Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-11 Thread bearophileHUGS
Nick Coghlan wrote: > Anyway, check out AlternateLambdaSyntax on the python.org Wiki It's an interesting page: http://www.python.org/moin/AlternateLambdaSyntax Some days ago I suggested something different: maybe def can become a function, then it can work as lambda (and still as the old def) too.

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-11 Thread Richie Hindle
[Christos] > *Three* requests --check the thread "goto, cls, wait commands". I saw that too, and was too freaked out to respond. > BTW, my sincere congratulations for what I presume best computer related > April's > Fool joke of all time; I love double-bluffs. The worst of all is I've often >

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread Carl Banks
Philip Smith wrote: > I've read with interest the continuing debate about 'lambda' and its place > in Python. > > Just to say that personally I think its an elegant and useful construct for > many types of programming task (particularly number theory/artificial > intelligence/genetic algorithms)

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread John J. Lee
from goto.py ( http://entrian.com/goto/ ): .# Label: "label .x" XXX Computed labels. :-) John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread TZOTZIOY
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:21:47 +, rumours say that Richie Hindle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: > >[Philip] >> For that matter I would find implementing the classical algorithms far >> easier if python had 'goto' > >I can't believe it - first a request for COMEFROM and now one for GOTO

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread Richie Hindle
[Philip] > For that matter I would find implementing the classical algorithms far > easier if python had 'goto' I can't believe it - first a request for COMEFROM and now one for GOTO, both on the same day. I should have put http://entrian.com/goto/ under a commercial license. 8-) -- Richie H

Re: lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread Nick Coghlan
Philip Smith wrote: I've read with interest the continuing debate about 'lambda' and its place in Python. Just to say that personally I think its an elegant and useful construct for many types of programming task (particularly number theory/artificial intelligence/genetic algorithms) I can't t

lambda and for that matter goto not forgetting sugar

2005-02-10 Thread Philip Smith
I've read with interest the continuing debate about 'lambda' and its place in Python. Just to say that personally I think its an elegant and useful construct for many types of programming task (particularly number theory/artificial intelligence/genetic algorithms) I can't think why anyone woul