Re[2]: [GHC] #1102: Lambda unicode character lex

Bulat Ziganshin <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Jan 2007 00:48:46 +0300

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Hello GHC,

Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 7:16:25 PM, you wrote:

>  I removed the claim on the Haskell-prime wiki, and also removed the failed
>  attempt to support unicode lambda from GHC.

>  Further discussion is needed here: since ? is a lower-case letter, ?x is
>  an identifier.  If we want to treat this as meaning `\x`, that means ?
>  would need to be treated as a "special" character (like parentheses for
>  example).  No other alphanumeric character has this property, currently.

it seems that no one answered this so i need to say that treating lambda
and other ancient symbols use in math for their math purpose looks very
promising. i'm wondering - are these symbols used in modern Greek,
so this may create problems for Greek programmers using their national
alphabet?

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 Bulat                            mailto:[email protected]