Let's Talk About Lambda Functions!

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Tue Aug 20 18:29:37 EDT 2002


In article <mailman.1029879659.22889.python-list at python.org>,
 Cliff Wells <LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 05:27, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> > Duncan Booth
> > > I guess these two posts together must be talking about vorpal lambdas.
> > How
> > > appropriate and Pythonic.
> > 
> > 
> > A little help here... vorpal?
> > 
> 
> Vorpal - keen or sharp. From the poem "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll.

Yes, but in this context referring to the vorpal bunny in Monty Python 
and the Holy Grail.

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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/



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