On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:01 +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > > Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * Remove special lambda unicode character, it didn't work anyway > > Since lambda is a lower-case letter, it's debatable whether we want to > > steal it to mean lambda in Haskell source. However if we did, then we > > would probably want to make it a "special" symbol, not just a reserved > > symbol, otherwise writing \x->... (using unicode characters of course) > > wouldn't work, because \x would be treated as a single identifier, > > you'd need a space. > > There are a number of mathematical lambdas in Unicode (distinct from teh > Greek lambdas), but they are not in the basic multilingual plane and they > are presumably not very easy to type :-)
Do you know what they are? I couldn't find any other than the greek lambda λ and the latin lambda with stroke ƛ. Duncan _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
