From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-29T09:24:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Japanese Heritage of Ruby: useful by-product?....

2008/8/28 Martin DeMello <martindemello@gmail.com>:
> 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):

I saw this originally from Dan Berger, but so can Ruby :)

#!/usr/bin/env ruby -Ku

alias ë proc

doubler = ë { |x| x*2 }
p doubler[5]   #=> 10

-greg



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