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[Python-Dev] Let's just *keep* lambda

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Fri Feb 10 03:07:28 CET 2006 
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006 16:27:35 -0800, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

>[Bengt, on lambda :: suite]
>
>Since you probably won't stop until I give you an answer: I'm really
>not interested in a syntactic solution that allows multi-line lambdas.
>I don't think the complexity (in terms of users needing to learn them)
>is worth it. So please stop (as several people have already asked
>you). There's some text somewhere in the guidelines for python
>developers on when to know when to give up. Read it. :-)
>
Thank you. I give up ;-) I will try to find it and read it.

But no fair tempting the weak with
"""
It's a hard problem ...  For example, consider this hypothetical
example: ...
"""
;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter
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