On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:51 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > > When the -XUnicodeSyntax option is specified, GHC accepts some Unicode > > > characters including left/right arrows. Unfortunately, the letter > > > "greek lambda" cannot be used. Are there any technical reasons to not > > > accept it? > > > > The "greek lambda" is a normal lower-case alphabetic character - it can > > be used in identifier names. > > But it could be a reserved word synonymous with \. After all, \ can > occur in operator symbols, but the operator \ is reserved.
Presumably that would let you do (\ x -> ...) but not (\x -> ) since the "\x" would run together and lexically it would be one identifier. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
