15 May
2008
15 May
'08
3:04 a.m.
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.) -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH