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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 Pythonic (in a "we-are-all-grown-ups" fashion, ahem)enough to get its way into the language
> this is what yours truly thinks: don't we all know that ":" means the next token must be an indent (mostly)? and doesn't the "(" and its alikes, [ and } begin an space-insensitive lexing context? so all we need is having an "space-sensitivity-stack" and the corresponding "(" counting stack and this way we could match opening and closing "()" and pop the space-sensitivity-stack whenever the "(" counting stack gets a 0 at the top:

Please don't add multiline lambdas to Python.

Multiline lambdas give rise (in a big way) to the
computer-language-equivalent of run-on sentences.

If anything, I'd suggest removing single-line lambdas.  List
comprehensions and generator expressions render single-line lambdas
almost entirely redundant; they're too TMTOWTDI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-on_sentence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_do_it

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proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 00:55 -0700
  Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-21 18:18 +1000
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 01:59 -0700
      Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-21 19:05 +1000
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 02:06 -0700
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 02:27 -0700
  Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 02:14 -0700
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-21 12:27 +0300
      Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) icefapper@gmail.com - 2014-08-21 02:30 -0700
        Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 15:15 +1000
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-08-21 06:07 -0400
  Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Travis Griggs <travisgriggs@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 13:05 -0700
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-23 19:20 +1000
  Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 16:48 -0700
  Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> - 2014-08-22 16:58 -0700
    Re: proposed syntax for multiline anony-functions (hopefully?) Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-23 10:37 +0300

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