From: Evan Phoenix <evan@...>
Date: 2008-05-12T11:23:38+09:00
Subject: Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on


On May 11, 2008, at 7:17 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In message "Re: lambda, ->, haskell, and so on"
>    on Mon, 12 May 2008 11:02:34 +0900, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com 
> > writes:
>
> |So allow the literal lambda symbol (U+03BB) then.
> |
> |'λ() { }'
>
> Can you (and others) easily input that symbol?

No, we can't.

>
>
> For me, it's relatively easy, since λ has been included in  
> Japanese
> character set for long while.  But I could confuse others by
> interchanging λ and 入 (Kanji character for  
> 'enter').  ;-)
>
> I don't want to follow Fortress (and Perl6)'s path into character
> labyrinth.

Yes, please lets not follow this dark and dangerous road. All I read  
about fortress is that it's impossible to use because no one can  
interact with the language since no one can type the required symbols.

>
>
> 							matz.
>