Would Anonymous Functions Help in Learning Programming/Python?

Mon Sep 24 03:50:02 EDT 2007

In message <zOdJi.35091$RX.24066 at newssvr11.news.prodigy.net>, Bryan Olson
wrote:

> The keyword "lambda" sucks. ...
> 
> Alonzo Church's calculus used the *symbol*.

The keyword was popularized by LISP, and hence adopted by most other
languages to copy the concept.

In my view, it's no worse than using "=" for assignment instead of equality.

> "function" would be a much better keyword.

As used that way in JavaScript.