Re: Unicode's greek lambda

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote:

Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007 Simon Marlow * 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 :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch http://dotat.at/ VIKING NORTH UTSIRE SOUTH UTSIRE: NORTHWESTERLY 6 TO GALE 8, OCCASIONALLY SEVERE GALE 9 IN VIKING AND SOUTH UTSIRE. VERY ROUGH, OCCASIONALLY HIGH. RAIN THEN SHOWERS, WINTRY LATER IN VIKING AND NORTH UTSIRE. MODERATE OR GOOD, OCCASIONALLY POOR.