On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 5:11:02 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > > > 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. > > I'm not sure that "lambda" is any more mysterious or meaningless than other > terms used in computing. What's a closure? A trampoline? A future? Mapping? > Thread? Greenlet? Mantissa? Not to mention terms from mathematics that > people simply memorise, like "sin", "cos", "power".
Its my conjecture/contention that people find λ hard because 98% of material presenting it is backward: "A λ is an 'anonymous function" How does "A constant is an anonymous variable" sound? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
