>> After so many attempts to come up with an alternative for lambda, >> perhaps we should admit defeat. I've not had the time to follow the >> most recent rounds, but I propose that we keep lambda, so as to stop >> wasting everybody's talent and time on an impossible quest. > > I agree with this. The *name* "lambda" is a wart, even if the deferred > expression feature isn't. My preference is to simply replace the > keyword lambda with a keyword "expr" (or if that's not acceptable > because there's too much prior use of expr as a variable name, then > maybe "expression" - but that's starting to get a bit long). Sorry, I'm a little late to this discussion. How about `procedure', or just `proc'? And to think that people thought that keeping "lambda", but changing the name, would avoid all the heated discussion... :-) -Patrick
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