lambdak: multi-line lambda implementation in native Python

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Fri Jan 16 07:06:59 EST 2015


Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 01:50:00 +1100, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
>> declaimed the following:
>>
>>>Problem: You have a smartphone with a 4x4 pixel screen.
>>
>> 	BIG problem, considering that a late 70s DECWriter needed 5x7
>> pixels for glyphs in an 8x10 pixel character cell {as I recall...}
>
> If those are 24-bit RGB pixels, you could encode
> 3 characters in each pixel.

Not since Python3. Characters are Unicode now so you'll need to dedicate
a pixel for each character.


Marko



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