List of Functions

[Rustom Mody]

On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 5:11:02 AM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 06:51 pm, Jussi Piitulainen wrote:
> 
> > Ben Bacarisse writes:
> > 
> >> It's shame that anonymous functions (for that's what's being returned
> >> here -- a function with no name) were born of a subject that used
> >> arbitrary Greek letters for things.  We seem stuck with the mysterious
> >> but meaningless "lambda" for a very simple and useful idea.
> 
> I'm not sure that "lambda" is any more mysterious or meaningless than other
> terms used in computing. What's a closure? A trampoline? A future? Mapping?
> Thread? Greenlet? Mantissa? Not to mention terms from mathematics that
> people simply memorise, like "sin", "cos", "power".

Its my conjecture/contention that people find λ hard because 98% of material
presenting it is backward: "A λ is an 'anonymous function"

How does "A constant is an anonymous variable"   sound?