> I don’t want to write a random free function for one line of code. I want nice syntax shrug Sure, me too, everybody wants nice syntax. What I'm saying is th

> I don’t want to write a random free function for one line of code. I want nice syntax shrug Sure, me too, everybody wants nice syntax. What I'm saying is that syntax is never the most important problem with a language. People talk about problems with syntax because they're easy to understand, and the more important problems with a language are much harder to understand and talk about. If a genie told me I could wish for three problems with Python to be instantly fixed, none of them would be syntax. I can't think of a language I've used where syntax would be on the list.