Unicode's greek lambda

Malcolm Wallace Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
Tue Nov 18 05:30:01 EST 2008


> When the -XUnicodeSyntax option is specified, GHC accepts some Unicode
> characters including left/right arrows. Unfortunately, the letter
> "greek lambda" cannot be used. Are there any technical reasons to not
> accept it?

The "greek lambda" is a normal lower-case alphabetic character - it can
be used in identifier names.

Regards,
    Malcolm


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