From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T07:14:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Japanese Heritage of Ruby: useful by-product?....

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:46 PM, John Pritchard-williams
<monojohnny@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Mmh...maybe Greek character 'Lambda' could be useful here as
> well....better than mutating '->'....:)

PLT Scheme lets you use "ë" instead of "lambda" in your code, e.g.
(from the distribution):

(define (smallest? can o1 o2 o3)
    (and can
         (andmap (ë (x) (< can x))
                 (filter (ë (x) x)
                         (list o1 o2 o3)))))

It was a bit disconcerting at first but now that I've gotten used to
it I find it makes things more readable.

martin