for the same reasons of style and clarity, I prefer my imaginary syntax to the lambda you've defined. And if you want to make it impossible, just imagine it's "print baz(z)".<p>Anyway, I'm familiar with why Guido doesn't want them, and I totally respect it, and I write 99% of my personal code in python, so I clearly don't think it's a huge deal. It's just something I wish python did have, is all.