Mosai76

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   by Mosai76 8y ago

   Not sure what the immutability of functions has to do with your argument. You may want to edit the Wikipedia page on literals in computer programming where it describes anonymous functions as function literals https://en.wikipedi
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   by Mosai76 8y ago

   Right I see your point about most named functions being literals but I think typically when people refer to literals they mean something that can be defined inline or passed into a function without naming it. E.g. map(lambda x: x + 1, [1, 2
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   Ask HN: Why are lambdas not simply called function literals?

   2 points by Mosai76 8y ago|4 comments