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

[Rustom Mody]

On Thursday, July 14, 2016 at 9:51:16 AM UTC+5:30, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> Alexander Belopolsky
> <alexander.... at gmail.com <javascript:>> writes:
>
> > We already have two camps: those who don't mind using "lambda" and
> > those who would only use "def."
>
> I don't know anyone in the latter camp, do you?
>
> I am in the camp that loves ‘lambda’ for some narrowly-specified
> purposes *and* thinks ‘def’ is generally a better tool.
>
>
I suspect the two major camps are those who consider CS to be a branch of 
math and those who dont
Those who dont typically have a strong resistance to the facts of history:
http://blog.languager.org/2015/03/cs-history-0.html 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/attachments/20160717/778f7789/attachment-0001.html>