[Haskell-cafe] Richer (than ascii) notation for haskell source?

[Eric Stansifer]

> As to your assertion of discrimination against Greek:  my point was that
> mathematical notation *already* discriminates against speakers of Greek by
> appropriating their alphabet for its own purposes, so if you want to enable
> a mathematical-notation language mode it's already difficult to support a
> Greek localization.  (I do wonder how modern Greek mathematicians deal with
> this....)

This made me curious... so hunting around on the internet I found:
http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%8C%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BF
which, although almost the same as mathematics in English (notice
'epsilon' being used in the same sense), uses 'nu' as a variable to
index over the integers, and 'lambda' as a upper/lower bound.

Also I found a list of abstracts (mixture of English and Greek):
http://users.uoa.gr/~apgiannop/pcma08/program-print.pdf
which again looks almost the same as English mathematics (especially
when they write it in English), although it seems like 'lambda' is
being used as a variable with rather high frequency.

Eric