Strange use of Lambda arrow

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Jun 5 20:01:00 EDT 2020


On Sat, Jun 6, 2020 at 8:24 AM Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au> wrote:
> The OP may be being confused by JavaScript, where they have "arrow
> functions", which are what Python calls lambda: anonymous functions. It
> uses an arrow in the syntax:
>
>     (x,y) -> x+y
>

In JS, they're sometimes called "fat arrow" functions, because they
are spelled "=>". Maybe there's some other language where they're
spelled "->"?

ChrisA


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