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throwaway17_17
12 months ago
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Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig
I believe the `\` character for functions is original to Haskell. Miranda does not have anonymous functions as a part of the language.
pezezin
12 months ago
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The \ is a simplified lambda, because most programmers can't type λ easily.
robertlagrant
12 months ago
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I would be very in favour of making λ a keyword, though. Maybe a linter could convert \ to λ.
iso8859-1
12 months ago
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it would be confusing since it's not part of UnicodeSyntax
https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/unic...
robertlagrant
12 months ago
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Well, even better to add it to that! But I was thinking generally, to be honest. I really want Python to synonimise the keyword lamdba with the λ symbol so I can golf my Advent of Code code better.
robertlagrant
12 months ago
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Argh. Synonymise.
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