As you see, this way of writing constants gives you much more poetic freedom than in other programming languages.
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Nobody <nob...@nowhere.com> wrote: >> It's useful insofar as it allows you to define "numbers" given nothing >> other than abstraction and application, which are the only operations >> available in the lambda calculus. >> > > Heh. This is why mathematicians ALWAYS make use of previously-defined > objects! In pure lambda calculus, constants are even more painful than > in SPL[1]... > > ChrisA > [1] > http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/shakespeare.html#SECTION00045000000000000000 > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
