Re: map/filter/reduce/lambda opinions and background unscientific mini-survey

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Terry Han*** wrote:

Having said that, I too will miss the *concept* of an anonymous function, although I wouldn't mind at all if its name changed, or if it were somehow integrated into the "def" keyword's usage. Using backticks or some other syntax delimiter also sounds promising, although we're sort of running out of them. ;-)

I understand that the backslash is popular in some ivory-tower functional languages. Currently, a backslash can be used for explicit line joining, and is illegal elsewhere on a line outside a string literal, so i think it's available for this. It would be utterly unpythonic to use puntuation instead of a keyword, and it would make no sense to novices, but it would scare the crap out of C programmers, which has to be worth something.

tom

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