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 -- 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/UW6436X65TGMC4D5ROIW4MH7GYUJQS5L/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
