Stephan Houben wrote:
Church's lambda notation was the first way to write down a function without naming it, in the 1930's.
That's debatable. It could be argued that calculus makes use of anonymous functions, e.g. the expression d/dx (x**2 + 2*x - 3) describes a function of x without giving a name to it. This means that
these mathematical developments haven't yet entered high school mathematics
is not entirely true -- anyone who's studied calculus has been exposed to the concept of an anonymous function, although it probably hasn't been explicitly described in those terms. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
