14 Jul
2016
14 Jul
'16
1:53 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Stephan Houben
Hi list,
Here is my speculative language idea for Python:
Allow the following alternative spelling of the keyword `lambda':
λ
(That is "Unicode Character 'GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA' (U+03BB).")
Just to be a small data point, I have written code that uses λ as a variable name (as someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread, Jupyter Notebook makes typing Greek characters easy). Because this would break code that I have written, and I suspect it would break other code as well, I am -1 on the proposal. How selfish of me! Cody