From: "Wolfgang Nádasi-Donner" <ed.odanow@...>
Date: 2008-05-01T17:52:30+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on

Dave Thomas schrieb:
>      -> (params) { block }
> ...
> That is, the lambda is introduced with a \ (because, presumably, it 
> looks a bit like ��).

As I understood Matz in some slides (don't remember where I've found 
them), he introduces "->" as looking somehow like "��" when turning it 45 
degrees conterclockwise. It can be read then "�� (params) { block }".

Wolfgang N��dasi-Donner