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Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 16:48:41 -0700
Subject: Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?)
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 12:55 AM,  <icefapper@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, just wanting to do a shot in the dark,but maybe this syntax is Python=
ic (in a "we-are-all-grown-ups" fashion, ahem)enough to get its way into th=
e language
> this is what yours truly thinks: don't we all know that ":" means the nex=
t token must be an indent (mostly)? and doesn't the "(" and its alikes, [ a=
nd } begin an space-insensitive lexing context? so all we need is having an=
 "space-sensitivity-stack" and the corresponding "(" counting stack and thi=
s way we could match opening and closing "()" and pop the space-sensitivity=
-stack whenever the "(" counting stack gets a 0 at the top: