The prefix symbol

[Paulo Levi]

I guess a new language should reserve the mathematical part of the unicode
set - you never know when we will get holographic keyboards (in fact, i saw
one a year ago).

Futher complicating the matter is the problem that some of these
> characters comprise valid identifiers.
>
> For example, this appears to be valid Java today:
>
>   int λ = 1;
>
>
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/second_edition/html/lexical.doc.html#40625
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> I can't seem to get any of "��������" in my IDE so I cannot attest to
> their validity but it stands to reason that they would also qualify.
>
> On 06/22/2011 06:02 AM, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
> > 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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