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I think that going from a language with real genuine closures to one with the half measure that Python has (lambdas) would actually be a backwards step. Plus I

by zmmmmm 15y ago

I think that going from a language with real genuine closures to one with the half measure that Python has (lambdas) would actually be a backwards step. Plus I agree with the other (downvoted) commenter that whitespace would be a huge annoyance. A language for the web has to be something robust to copying and pasting to / from web pages.

andybak 15y ago
Closures and lambda (anonymous functions) are orthogonal features. Python has closures (and one last limitation related to scope and rebinding was fixed in Python 3) Furthermore although I agree Python's limited lambda's make it slightly uglier to do some constructs, it's merely syntactic sugar. First-order functions are the critical feature. Whether you are compelled to give them a name or not isn't critical.