[Haskell-cafe] Richer (than ascii) notation for haskell source?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Wed May 14 23:04:11 EDT 2008


On 2008 May 14, at 22:57, Derek Elkins wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 14:40 +1200, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
>> I suspect that "λ is the lambda-symbol iff it is not preceded by any
>> identifier character and is not followed by a Greek letter" might  
>> work.
>
> λω. ...
> λα. ...
> λδ ε. ...


Come to think of it, if you're after math notation, enough Greek  
letters are used as symbols that it might be necessary to just exclude  
them from use as letters.  (Symbols would be fair game.)

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