3 Jan
2003
3 Jan
'03
7:35 p.m.
On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 00:42 US/Eastern, Gisle Aas wrote:
'anon' sounds like a great name -- unlikely to be used, shorter than 'lambda', and a heck of lot more indicative as to what is going on. 'anon' does not sound that great to me. Anon what? There is lots of anonymous stuff. Arc is going for 'fn'. I would vote for 'sub' :)
Either makes more sense than 'lambda'. I prefer 'anon' because it is a very common abbreviation for 'anonymous' and because it would have reduced the scarring during the learning of lambda calculus in CS so many years ago. 'fn' and 'sub' don't seem to be much differentiated from 'def'. 'fun' would be better than 'fn', though' because that's what lambda functions are... b.bum