Just playing Devil's advocate, but one very good use of {} is for real anonymous functions. I.e. map([1,2,3], lambda (x) { print x return x * 2 })

Just playing Devil's advocate, but one very good use of {} is for real anonymous functions. I.e. map([1,2,3], lambda (x) { print x return x * 2 }) That's one of the limiting reason why we can't have that in Python right now