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[James B. Byrne]

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On: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:47:41 -0500, "Andrew WC Brown" <omen.king at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've seen lambda before but not sure what it does.

A lambda is a fancy name for an anonymous or unbound function.  Its
significance comes from the fact that it is completely stateless, producing no
side effects to its returned result.

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