Express What, not How.

Ken Shan ken at digitas.harvard.edu
Fri Oct 17 22:14:41 EDT 2003


Raffael Cavallaro <raffaelcavallaro at junk.mail.me.not.mac.com> wrote in article <raffaelcavallaro-8AEE3E.21031117102003 at netnews.attbi.com> in comp.lang.functional:
> In article <t76661-316.ln1 at proper.ptq.dyndns.org>,
>  Ken Shan <ken at digitas.harvard.edu> wrote:
> > In what sense are "lambda" and "apply" not names?
> Not names from the problem domain, unless the problem domain is 
> functional programming.

But in the style of programming that you advocate, as I understand
it, one does not need to give a name to function application from the
problem domain before using it.

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