List of Functions
Rustom Mody
rustompmody at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 22:23:45 EDT 2016
On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 5:11:02 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I'm not sure that "lambda" is any more mysterious or meaningless than other
> terms used in computing. What's a closure? A trampoline? A future? Mapping?
> Thread? Greenlet? Mantissa? Not to mention terms from mathematics that
> people simply memorise, like "sin", "cos", "power".
Its my conjecture/contention that people find λ hard because 98% of material
presenting it is backward: "A λ is an 'anonymous function"
How does "A constant is an anonymous variable" sound?
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