"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on Wed, 7 May 2008 16:13:36 -0700 (PDT): > ... > Let me give a few example. > > • “lambda”, widely used as a keyword in functional languages, is named > just “Function” in Mathematica. The “lambda” happend to be called so > in the field of symbolic logic, is due to use of the greek letter > lambda “λ” by happenstance. The word does not convey what it means. > While, the name “Function”, stands for the mathematical concept of > “function” as is.
"lambda" is not a function, but an operator with two operands, a variable name and an expression resulting in another expression which behaves like a function (the abstraction of the variable name in the expression). Dieter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
