for the same reasons of style and clarity, I prefer my imaginary syntax to the lambda you've defined. And if you want to make it impossible, just imagine it's "

for the same reasons of style and clarity, I prefer my imaginary syntax to the lambda you've defined. And if you want to make it impossible, just imagine it's "print baz(z)". Anyway, I'm familiar with why Guido doesn't want them, and I totally respect it, and I write 99% of my personal code in python, so I clearly don't think it's a huge deal. It's just something I wish python did have, is all.