Tim, what have you been putting into Guido's coffee the last few days ? Colons seem to have grown magical expressiveness and now he even likes lambdas ;-) Guido van Rossum wrote: > I still don't have time to read this thread :-(, but I had a new idea > that I'd like to fly here. > > If we want to support thunks that blend into the scope of their > environment as well as thunks that introduce a new local scope, here's > one possible way to do it: > > Thunk blending in: > > [<variable> =] <expression>: > <block> > > Thunk introducing a new local scope: > > [<variable> =] <expression> lambda: > <block> > > (Never mind the ugly things I've said about lambda in the past. :-) > > I'm confident that the parser can distinguish these, and I'm confident > that the scope blending can be implemented using nested-scope cells. > > Adding formal parameters to the second case would go like this: > > [<variable> =] <expression> lambda <arguments>: > <block> > > One concern I have in both cases: I think there are use cases for > wanting more than one block. Glyph's example wants to define various > callbacks for a remote call, and this would need multiple blocks. I > think the syntax for this would have to use some kind of keyword-based > continuation, e.g. > > [<variable> =] <expression> lambda: > <block> > and <expression> lambda: > <block> > ... > > Disclaimer: this is a half-baked idea. > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH _______________________________________________________________________ eGenix.com -- Makers of the Python mx Extensions: mxDateTime,mxODBC,... Python Consulting: http://www.egenix.com/ Python Software: http://www.egenix.com/files/python/
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