Unicode's greek lambda

[Tony Finch]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Simon Marlow wrote:
>
> Tue Jan 16 16:11:00 GMT 2007  Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>
>   * Remove special lambda unicode character, it didn't work anyway
>   Since lambda is a lower-case letter, it's debatable whether we want to
>   steal it to mean lambda in Haskell source.  However if we did, then we
>   would probably want to make it a "special" symbol, not just a reserved
>   symbol, otherwise writing \x->... (using unicode characters of course)
>   wouldn't work, because \x would be treated as a single identifier,
>   you'd need a space.

There are a number of mathematical lambdas in Unicode (distinct from teh
Greek lambdas), but they are not in the basic multilingual plane and they
are presumably not very easy to type :-)

Tony.
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