[Python-ideas] lambda

[Terry Reedy]

"Malte Helmert" 
<helmert at informatik.uni-freiburg.de> 
wrote in message news:fsgi6i$dpv$1 at ger.gmane.org...
| > It's a little less terse than Haskell's "\->"
|
| it's worth pointing out that Haskell uses the backslash syntax because
| it is the nearest ASCII equivalent to the (lower-case) letter lambda.

With unicode source, we could use the real thing (ducks ;-).