On 2014-10-02, c...@isbd.net <c...@isbd.net> wrote: > Travis Griggs <travisgri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> > On Oct 1, 2014, at 04:12, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: >> > >> > `lambda` is just a fancy way to define a function inline >> >> Not sure "fancy" is the correct adjective; more like syntactic tartness >> (a less sweet version of syntactic sugar). >> > It throws me because 'lambda' simply has no meaning whatsoever for me, > i.e. it's just a greek letter. > > So from my point of view it's like seeing 'epsilon' stuck in the > middle of some code. > > It's not as if I'm new to programming either, I've been writing > software professionally since the early 1970s, now retired.
The use of "lamba" as a keyword to define an anonymous function is borrowed from Lisp which got it from Lambda calculus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Is this going to at involve RAW human ecstasy? gmail.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list