Hello, On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 14:33:43 -0800 Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a frequent objection to the word "lambda" -- > personally, I found it cryptic, but it's not hard to remember, and it > IS easy to look up. There seems to be a bit too many posts downputting the "lambda" keyword, and nobody went for its defense, so let me do that. The "lambda" is perhaps the greatest thing in Python after... after... well, maybe it's the single greatest thing in Python. As someone coming to Python from LISP (many years ago), I really appreciate it, and always considered Python to be "a LISP for real world". So, it's of great utility to people familiar with functional programming, but even of more utility to novices who are not yet - thanks to it, by looking it up, they can get acquainted with the wonderful world of functional programming and history of programming languages. Lambda is a sacred keyword, please don't touch! -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/OQ77ILWZERPL27U5A5BDH3YOYFW3DIRM/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
