On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Jon Zeppieri wrote:
2008/12/4 Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
this may be a stupid question, but why? Is it really so impossible to
have λ(a,b,c){} ?
Last time I brought this up, Brendan made fun of me on a podcast. :(
Not you personally! I hope that was at least a :-/ emoticon...
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Breton Slivka wrote:
I admit this seems ludicrous at its face, but admittedly I have not
really seen the arguments against λ as an abbreviated lambda syntax
yet.
Not compatibly: ES3 already allows Unicode identifiers, including
Greek
Lambda.
Also including the word 'lambda' -- but that hasn't stopped it from
being seriously considered.
True enough. And 'lambda' is likelier to be in use in web JS as an
identifier than λ, at a guess.
If we have to go to one character, though, I'd rather we use an ASCII
punctuation character, for the reasons given (hard to type, slight
incompatibility). But you λ fans need to help me here: how does one
type λ on a Mac laptop? How about on a standard Windows machine? Pick
a Linux and lay the clues on there, too.
/be
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