In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan Olson wrote: > The keyword "lambda" sucks. ... > > Alonzo Church's calculus used the *symbol*.
The keyword was popularized by LISP, and hence adopted by most other languages to copy the concept. In my view, it's no worse than using "=" for assignment instead of equality. > "function" would be a much better keyword. As used that way in JavaScript. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
