[Python-ideas] Syntactic sugar to declare partial functions

MRAB python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Mon Aug 13 15:37:56 EDT 2018


On 2018-08-13 20:08, Abe Dillon wrote:
> [Bruce Leban]
> 
>     Lambda calculus IS computer science.
> 
> It's a foundation of computer science. That doesn't mean it "IS" 
> computer science. Set theory is a foundation of computer science. It's 
> still it's own discipline.
> 
[snip]
The word "is" can mean, among other things, class membership or 
identify. Bruce was talking about class membership, not identity.


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