For some reason I'm reminded of this quote: "APL, in which you can write a program to simulate shuffling a deck of cards and then dealing them out to several players in four characters, none of which appear on a standard keyboard." David Given
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jon Zeppieri Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 4:46 PM To: es-discuss@mozilla.org Subject: Re: Allen's lambda syntax proposal [oops, sent from the wrong address...] 2008/12/4 Breton Slivka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > this may be a stupid question, but why? Is it really so impossible to > have λ(a,b,c){} ? Last time I brought this up, Brendan made fun of me on a podcast. :( > You guys seem to have no trouble typing it. It's not that much trouble > to remap a key, and you can always keep lambda(a,b,c){} as a more > verbose but more accessable alternative. IDEs could make a macro out > of it so you wouldn't even have to bother with going to the trouble of > remapping. Exactly what I wrote then. > I admit this seems ludicrous at its face, but admittedly I have not > really seen the arguments against λ as an abbreviated lambda syntax > yet. Well aside from the "random guy doesn't know how to map a key" problem (which is perfectly true), I could see some character set issues in the field. On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Brendan Eich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 4, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Breton Slivka wrote: > >> I admit this seems ludicrous at its face, but admittedly I have not >> really seen the arguments against λ as an abbreviated lambda syntax >> yet. > > Not compatibly: ES3 already allows Unicode identifiers, including Greek > Lambda. Also including the word 'lambda' -- but that hasn't stopped it from being seriously considered. -Jon _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss _______________________________________________ Es-discuss mailing list Es-discuss@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
