Ben Bacarisse writes: > It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned > here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used > arbitrary Greek letters for things. We seem stuck with the mysterious > but meaningless "lambda" for a very simple and useful idea.
Well said. Python should have called it "fun". I have heard that the use of lambda for this purpose was originally not an arbitrary choice but a typographical accident. A misinterpreted caret or something. I also seem to remember that I've seen some discussion on whether the story is true or not, but I forget which way it went. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
