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

[Campbell Barton]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Isaac Lenton <isaac at isuniversal.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ----
> Isaac

According to Ton - labda is Dutch for lambda - which explains why
blender 1.4x uses labda only.

Committed rename of labda and neareast.