newby question -- Lambda????



Lambda is a way of writing a function without giving it a name (an anonymous
function).

Suppose you only need the function f(x):=x^3-1 in one place. Instead of
writing

f(x):=x^3-1$
map(f,[a,b,c])

you can write

map( lambda([x],x^3-1) , [a,b,c])