List of Functions
Jussi Piitulainen
jussi.piitulainen at helsinki.fi
Mon Mar 28 03:51:00 EDT 2016
Ben Bacarisse writes:
> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
> arbitrary Greek letters for things. We seem stuck with the mysterious
> but meaningless "lambda" for a very simple and useful idea.
Well said.
Python should have called it "fun".
I have heard that the use of lambda for this purpose was originally not
an arbitrary choice but a typographical accident. A misinterpreted caret
or something. I also seem to remember that I've seen some discussion on
whether the story is true or not, but I forget which way it went.
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