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Re: Lambda function Turing completeness

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Date Thu, 1 Aug 2013 11:05:07 -0600
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:53:26 +0700, Musical Notation wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to write a Turing-complete lambda function (which does
>> not depend on named functions) in Python?
>
>
> lambda s: eval(s)

eval is a named function.

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Lambda function Turing completeness Musical Notation <musicdenotation@gmail.com> - 2013-07-31 13:53 +0700
  Re: Lambda function Turing completeness Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-08-01 05:55 +0000
    Re: Lambda function Turing completeness Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-08-01 11:05 -0600
  Re: Lambda function Turing completeness Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-08-24 19:45 -0400
    Re: Lambda function Turing completeness Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org> - 2013-08-24 20:30 -0400

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