On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:40 +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote: > On 15 May 2008, at 2:34 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > > Hm. Newer Unicode standard than the version supported by OSX and > > GNOME, I take it? That's not so helpful if nobody actually supports > > the characters in question. (My Mac claims 166CC is in an > > unassigned area, and no supplied font has the others. It does at > > least acknowledge that the others should exist and are "letters".) > > Whoops. Sorry, typo. 166CC should have been 1D6CC. > > I was actually looking at the Unicode 5.1 character data base, > but the copy I keep on my own machine is the 4.0.0 version, > and those mathematical symbols were there back in 4.0.0. > > > I still suspect it would not be outside the pale to make λ a > > keyword. We already have several, after all. > > I'd rather not have to write \x as λ x with a space required after the > λ. > I suspect that "λ is the lambda-symbol iff it is not preceded by any > identifier character and is not followed by a Greek letter" might work.
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