What is a Lambda?

Question

Could someone provide a good description of what a Lambda is? We have a tag for them and they\'re on the secrets of C# question, but I have yet to find a good definition an

Answer 1

It's just an anonymous function declared inline, most typically assigned to a delegate when you don't want to write a full-fledged function.

In languages like lisp/scheme, they're often passed around quite liberally as function parameters, but the idiom in C# typically finds lambdas used only for lazy evaluation of functions, as in linq, or for making event-handling code a bit terser.