[Python-ideas] allow `lambda' to be spelled λ

Pavol Lisy pavol.lisy at gmail.com
Wed Jul 13 00:50:18 EDT 2016


On 7/13/16, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Stephan Houben <stephanh42 at gmail.com>
> writes:


>> * The resulting code resembles more closely mathematical notation (in
>>   particular, lambda-calculus notation), so it brings Python closer to
>>   being "executable pseudo-code".
>
> How is that an advantage?

Could help promote python.


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