On 17/02/21 7:10 am, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
"It's Greek letter, like pi that you may remember from maths class. In some technical computer science, the Greek L, lambda, is used as the symbol for functions."
The most accurate answer seems to be "Because somebody made a mistake transcribing a mathematics paper many years ago." :-) -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UW6436X65TGMC4D5ROIW4MH7GYUJQS5L/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
