Why not real anonymous functions?

Sorry, but maybe I wasn’t clear. I’m not suggesting that anyone expect “the payoff of seeing a new feature”. The only payoff is mitigating threads like this one. So you don’t need a “champion”.

Instead of a PEP, it could simply be a wiki of commonly proposed ideas. That keeps the editing barrier small. Each idea would have its own page, which could look something like:

Main idea: Multi-line anonymous functions

Proposal details: … [variations of syntaxes, e.g.]

Links to discussion threads: …

Main arguments against: …

Main arguments for: …

Related PEPs: …


This doesn’t need much effort. You could probably lift most of these sections from this thread verbatim.

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