[Python-ideas] Syntactic sugar to declare partial functions

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Aug 13 17:58:30 EDT 2018


Chris Angelico wrote:
> No, lambda calculus isn't on par with brakes - but anonymous functions
> are, and if they're called "lambda", you just learn that.

It's like saying that people would find it easier to learn to
drive if "brakes" were called "stoppers" or something. I don't
think that's true.

-- 
Greg




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