[Python-3000] lambda

Wed Mar 26 03:01:32 CET 2008

Olivier Verdier wrote:
> Any thoughts about that? Any ideas of other better names than "lambda"?

A while back I created and proposed a patch that would change the syntax 
of lambda to be more like a generator expression. So instead of writing:
 lambda x: x * x
you would write:
 (x * x given x)
So for example:
 >>> (x * x given x)(2)
 4
However, the patch and the general concept were rejected. For myself, I 
thought the idea was cute, but not a huge improvement, and I'm not 
willing to spend any serious effort lobbying for it.
-- Talin