Of what use is 'lambda'???

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Mon Sep 18 22:16:26 EDT 2000


In article <39C6C4BF.430048FE at yahoo.com>, tye4  <tye4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>The lambda definition is limited to only one expression, and everything
>you do with lambda, can also be done with plain functions.

Yup.  Lambda is worthless.  Don't use it.

(I'm half-joking, but only half-joking.  Try learning Lisp or Haskell,
and then lambdas will probably make more sense.)
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