
On Jul 13, 2016, at 9:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Which means that programmers will find themselves split into two camps: those who can easily type λ, and those that cannot.
We already have two camps: those who don't mind using "lambda" and those who would only use "def." I would expect that those who will benefit most are people who routinely write expressions that involve a lambda that returns a lambda that returns a lambda. There is a niche for such programming style and using λ instead of lambda will improve the readability of such programs for those who can understand them in the current form. For the "def" camp, the possibility of a non-ascii spelling will serve as yet another argument to avoid using anonymous functions.