georg brandl cxwopmagmxnet benjamin peterson schrieb guido said hadnt found better name well think almost name better especially name emphasizes fact lambda construction fact functions guido repeats lambda synctactic sugar function definition suggestion new name lambda much better describe namely function since function defined keyword def id suggest following possibilities ldef local definition indeed lambda definition idef inline definition cdef compact definition sdef shorthand definition etc abbreviations find dont help much local please dont start past shown isnt better name everyone agrees b isnt better name guido agrees local glaring asymmetry global nonlocal makes nonstarter anything along theses lines descriptive lambda newcommers immediately guess without wading manual python code also readable non python specialists late change name lambda python 2x change python 3000 since release breaks backwards compatibility anyway yeah probably late quite georg thus spake lord thou shalt indent four spaces less four shall number spaces thou shalt indent number thy indenting shall four eight shalt thou indent either indent thou two excepting thou proceed four tabs right _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 004040 0100 python3000 lambda