[Bf-committers] distance along line scalar - labda or lambda?

[Isaac Lenton]

A bit of lambda, labda, lambd Trivia:

Sometimes the use of "labda" instead of "lambda" or other misspellings 
of the word "lambda" are used in languages that define a built in 
"lambda", for example Python uses lambda for anonymous functions.  In 
some Python implementations of functions that use lambda, programmers 
will sometimes chose to misspell rather then replace with a different 
variable.

An example from the Python documentation is the 
random.expovariate(lambd), where lambd is another misspelling of 
lambda.  The documentation says:

"The parameter would be called "lambda", but that is a reserved word in 
Python."

But, in C/C++ I don't see any problem with using lambda, so I would 
think these should probably be changed to the proper spelling of the 
Greek character.

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Isaac