On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 15:01 +0000, Tony Finch wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote: >> > >> > Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007 Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > * 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 :-) > > Do you know what they are? I couldn't find any other than the greek > lambda λ and the latin lambda with stroke ƛ.
They're listed under Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols. <http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D400.pdf> e.g., 1D6CC mathematical bold small lambda -- Dave Menendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.eyrie.org/~zednenem/>
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