On 15 May 2008, at 2:34 pm, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Hm. Newer Unicode standard than the version supported by OSX and GNOME, I take it? That's not so helpful if nobody actually supports the characters in question. (My Mac claims 166CC is in an unassigned area, and no supplied font has the others. It does at least acknowledge that the others should exist and are "letters".)
Whoops. Sorry, typo. 166CC should have been 1D6CC. I was actually looking at the Unicode 5.1 character data base, but the copy I keep on my own machine is the 4.0.0 version, and those mathematical symbols were there back in 4.0.0.
I still suspect it would not be outside the pale to make λ a keyword. We already have several, after all.
I'd rather not have to write \x as λ x with a space required after the λ.
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. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
