March 27, 2008
7:44 p.m.
"Malte Helmert" <helmert@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message news:fsgi6i$dpv$1@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 ;-).