On 2008 May 14, at 22:57, Derek Elkins wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:40 +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
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.
λω. ...
λα. ...
λδ ε. ...
Come to think of it, if you're after math notation, enough Greek
letters are used as symbols that it might be necessary to just exclude
them from use as letters. (Symbols would be fair game.)
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