Unicode's greek lambda

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:51 +0000, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:30:01AM +0000, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> But it could be a reserved word synonymous with \.  After all, \ can
> occur in operator symbols, but the operator \ is reserved.

Presumably that would let you do (\ x -> ...) but not (\x -> ) since the
"\x" would run together and lexically it would be one identifier.

Duncan