On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Isaac Lenton <[email protected]> wrote: > A bit of lambda, labda, lambd Trivia: > > Sometimes the use of "labda" instead of "lambda" or other misspellings > of the word "lambda" are used in languages that define a built in > "lambda", for example Python uses lambda for anonymous functions. In > some Python implementations of functions that use lambda, programmers > will sometimes chose to misspell rather then replace with a different > variable. > > An example from the Python documentation is the > random.expovariate(lambd), where lambd is another misspelling of > lambda. The documentation says: > > "The parameter would be called "lambda", but that is a reserved word in > Python." > > But, in C/C++ I don't see any problem with using lambda, so I would > think these should probably be changed to the proper spelling of the > Greek character. > > ---- > Isaac
According to Ton - labda is Dutch for lambda - which explains why blender 1.4x uses labda only. Committed rename of labda and neareast. _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
