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Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by pyre on Thursday June 01, 2017 @07:10PM (#14465790)
> And BTW they are quite powerful so you can do a lot with them.

I'm not saying that they aren't powerful. I'm saying that personally, I find declaring one-time-use functions in-line to be syntactically more pleasant / organized than sticking the function definition in the middle of functional code.

I'm not a newbie to Python, but after working with it for years, it's one of those things that I still wish existed. It's not necessarily a pain point or deal breaker or anything. I'm not even sure how it could work given Python's syntax.

Re:Perl 5.26.0 released by vram22 on Friday June 02, 2017 @10:11AM (#14469992)
>I find declaring one-time-use functions in-line to be syntactically more pleasant / organized than sticking the function definition in the middle of functional code.

Ok, I get what you mean now, and think you have a point there.