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Re: What’s New in Python 3.0

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post #21

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A Lambda machine can be implemented using a Turing machine, but not the other way around, which means, Lambda calculus is a subset. Correct me if I'm wrong.

nope, they're turing equivalent. read up on the church-turing thesis.

They are lambda isomorph.

Re: What’s New in Python 3.0

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post #16

I really wish they had added real lambdas. Don't get me wrong, these changes seem good. But every time I hear about a new Python release I keep hoping that I'll see they've finally reversed their policy about lambdas and made a real one instead of the compromise they have right now.

You should be yearning for proper tail recursion instead.

I can live without this. I cannot live without real lambdas. My heart actually will stop, and I will die. It's a dangerous world I live in.

Re: What’s New in Python 3.0

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post #25
post #17

Instead of print("string") I would have liked to see fn op1 op2 to be the standard function invocation - like in Haskell. (I know that would have wreaked havoc with the rest of Python's syntax.)

Instead of writing Python 3000, they shoulda written another Haskell!!

Haskell 2000!
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