Hello!
Chris Marusich skribis:
> Alex Vong writes:
>
>> [...] It seems many think λ is not newcomer-friendly [...].
>
> I would go one step farther and argue that the name "lambda" itself is
> not the best, regardless of whether it's written as "lambda" or "λ". I
> agree with the authors of St
Alex Vong writes:
> [...] It seems many think λ is not newcomer-friendly [...].
I would go one step farther and argue that the name "lambda" itself is
not the best, regardless of whether it's written as "lambda" or "λ". I
agree with the authors of Structure and Interpretation of Computers when
Chris Marusich writes:
> Efraim Flashner writes:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>>> Hello guix,
>>>
>>> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it
>>> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
>>> shows 7 uses
Efraim Flashner writes:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hello guix,
>>
>> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it
>> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
>> shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Hello guix,
>
> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it
> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
> shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it
> encourges
On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Hello guix,
>
> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it
> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
> shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it
> encourges
Hi T G-R,
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes:
> Alex,
>
> Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hello guix,
>>
>> Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed
>> it
>> before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
>> shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasan
Alex,
Alex Vong wrote:
Hello guix,
Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have
discussed it
before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on
source
shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant
and it
encourges the use of short functions (at least for
Hello guix,
Should we allow the use of 'λ' in guix? I think we have discussed it
before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source
shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it
encourges the use of short functions (at least for me!).
Cheers,
Alex
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