[Python-ideas] allow `lambda' to be spelled λ

SW walker_s at hotmail.co.uk
Thu Jul 14 09:22:06 EDT 2016


To me the backslash already has a fairly strong association with "the
next character is a literal". Overloading it would feel very strange.

S

On 14/07/16 14:10, Random832 wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016, at 09:42, Random832 wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2016, at 08:38, Stephan Houben wrote:
>>> I know people have been clamoring for shorter lambda-syntax in the
>>> past, I think this is a nice minimal extension.
>> How about a haskell-style backslash?
> Nobody has any thoughts at all?
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