This is needed, but I don't like new keywords. What I would love, for many reasons, is if we could decorate statements. Then things like:

import expensive_module

could be:

@lazy

import expensive_module

or you could do:

@retry(3)

x = failure_prone_call(y)

lazy is needed, but maybe there is a more basic change that could give more power with more organic syntax, and not create a new keyword that is special purpose (and extending an already special purpose keyword)