On 17/02/21 7:10 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Its no more "magic" than tuple, deque, iterator, coroutine, ordinal, modulus, etc, not to mention those ordinary English words with specialised jargon meanings like float, tab, zip, thread, key, promise, trampoline, tree, hash etc.
Actually, I think it is -- all those words build on a pre-existing meaning in some way, and in most cases you can trace the etymology back to something the person is most likely already familiar with. Lambda, on the other hand, is a completely fresh arbitrary choice. I agree that the technical meaning has to be taught in any case, though. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/WBTJLJ4NSARXBPJM4VYSJRVFIRT2DQHW/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
