is it a good idea in Python? If yes, how to make it not suck?
russell: Lambdas pretty much suck because there has not been a good brace-free syntax proposal,  There was a pretty good proposal for a where clause a couple of years ago, but it doesn't seem to have gotten any traction, probably because it was not made into a PEP (see python.org about PEP's).http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_threa...