I remember we discussed compactifying perl on this list a long time ago,
and this time I decided to have some fun with emacs overlays with python.
The resulting mode is attached below. With this mode, when typing the
following:
f = lambda x: x**2
for i in range(5):
print f(i)
v =
Is this a good idea? Probably absolutely not, but it is quite fun. :-)
Besides being cool clean fun, I wonder - only semi-jokingly - if it may
be useful to streamline the interface between algorithmists and
developers. In many organizations scientists are supposed to produce
algorithms in the
Though the idea of bridging is nice, I doubt that it is as simple as just a
question of providing syntactic sugar for the scientist. Any scientist
worth calling himself such, can deal with a spelled out lambda as well as
with λ. I think the problem is rather that some mathematicians don't care
for
