[Python-3000] lambda

[Georg Brandl]

Olivier Verdier schrieb:
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> On 26/03/2008, *Nick Coghlan* <ncoghlan at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ncoghlan at gmail.com>> 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. 
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> Yes but it doesn't look like a keyword, does it? It looks like a letter 
> of the greek alphabet to me. :-) The first time I came across lambda I 
> looked for the definition of the variable "lambda" in the whole program 
> and wondered about that strange syntax: "variable x,y: x+y".

You should have used a proper highlighting editor <wink>

Georg


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