[wellylug] Help in finding a good technical/Linux related bookstore
Phillip Hutchings
phillip.hutchings at sitharus.com
Thu Jun 14 09:45:46 NZST 2007
> What's a Lambda?
An anonymous function. More or less. Generally they can be passed
around in variables, they're one of the most useful features of
functional languages. eg in Python:
list.sort(lambda x, y: cmp(x.attr, y.attr))
will sort a list by an attribute. If it's only used once this is a
much nicer way to write it.
Then again, Ruby does this:
array.sort {|x, y| x.attr <=> y.attr}
Which I think looks nicer.
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Phillip Hutchings
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