If you ask a scientist, even a computer scientist, what "lambda" means he
will invariably answer that it is a letter in the Greek alphabet. Only a few
people working with lambda calculus will think of "lambda" as being related
to a function. Many beginners (included myself) were puzzled by "lambda"
There is a dislike of the lambda construction that I just don't understand.
Lambda is very practical in all sorts of situations, like: lambda x,y: x+y.
I just find the name plain silly, that's all. Perhaps you think that all
python programmers or beginners have a LISP background, but that's just no
On 26/03/2008, Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I think if I come across a keyword I didn't know in a language I was
> learning, I'd look it up to find out what it means.
Yes but it doesn't look like a keyword, does it? It looks like a letter of
the greek alphabet to me. :-) The first
