$Id: lambda.html,v 1.2 2001/02/01 01:43:43 jim Exp jim $ Jim Larson 1996-07-26 This talk was given at the JPL Section 312 Programming Lunchtime Seminar. Functions and Lambda Notation A function accepts input and produces an output. Suppose we have a "chocolate-covering" function that produces the following outputs for the corresponding inputs: peanuts -> chocolate-covered peanuts rasins -> chocola