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Re:Toolz: A functional standard library for Python by heavyset_go on Friday January 22, 2021 @06:49PM (#25877868)
Assignment expressions were "unpythonic" based on PEP 20 until they weren't. Modern languages have multi-line anonymous functions, and developer expectations have changed in the 17 years since PEP 20 was published.
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Re:Toolz: A functional standard library for Python by high_density on Sunday January 24, 2021 @01:21AM (#25889803)
the thing with python is that it's "indentation-based" -- it's difficult to see "where does this anonymous function return or end?"

maybe it's time to allow optional brackets for marking where a function starts and ends? eg. a { ... } (or anything else -- even {| ... |} will do)

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