c...@isbd.net: > It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing > software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired. I have no > formal computer training, there wasn't much in the way of university > courses on computing in the 1960s, I have a degree in Electrical > Engineering. Maybe that's why 'lambda' means nothing to me! :-)
Lambda is special because it was thought of in the 1920's, well before there were any general-purpose computers. <URL: http://www.users.waitrose.com/~hindley/SomePapers_PDFs/2006CarH in,HistlamRp.pdf> See Chapter 4. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
