The prefix symbol

[Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein]

It's a bit late to make Java look like Fortress... unless JDK 8 has a 
mandate for an overall review of the lexicon so we can write √(2) 
instead of Math.sqrt(2), etc., then -1 to adopt non-ASCII symbols 
exceptionally for lambdas.

A+
Osvaldo

On 6/22/2011 3:33 AM, Mark Thornton wrote:
> On 21/06/11 22:45, Lawrence Kesteloot wrote:
>> Okay so this is 2011. Can we use the Unicode lambda symbol? Of course
>> also support some digraph, like ,\
> There are in fact no less than 5 small lambda symbols in the Unicode
> character set! One from the Greek set and 4 more from the maths set. For
> pure ASCII entry the obvious choice would be \lambda, while verbose it
> is easy to remember.
>
> Those lambdas: ��������λ
>
> Mark Thornton
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