neil toronto upnmgmpqcsbyuedu olivier verdier wrote 26032008 nick coghlan lambda calculus well established field mathematics perfectly valid name construct university sweden lambda calculus never taught neither pure applied math part course computer science applied linguistics word lambda however used place eigenvalue wave length parameter lamé coefficient many courses yep seven years cs instruction far ive come across theory programming languages course lambda simply doesnt show unless language theory program lisp python also agree idea lambda construct rather use keyword free syntax like x 3x something kind would gorgeous reusing def make lambda expression f def x x2 y2 f defx x2 y2 time someone comes across mapdefx x2 lst code theyve already created plenty functions using def immediately obvious little less terse haskells gregs much also frees keyword doesnt create new operatorish looking one lastly cant imagine would difficult parse especially variation parenthesis neil _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 194855 0600 python3000 lambda