Re: lambda() naming
| From: | Zeev Suraski | Date: | Sun, 04 Jun 2000 06:13:53 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: lambda() naming | ||
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At 01:18 04/06/2000, Andrei Zmievski wrote:
On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: In fact, I don't believe in such thing as "intuitive function name". That's almost as "intuitive machine code". Function name is an axiom, you look it on the manual and learn it. You will do it anyway to know arguments, BTW :) And lambda is much shorter to type than anonymous_function. :) Yes, lambda() has a well-defined meaning in computer science, why should we dumb it down?Mostly because PHP is rarely used by computer-science people. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/