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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: pretty-lambdas -> pretty-greek
Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 02:45:27 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvllpo3u9z.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.sources@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ekvg6uxn.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com

> Following  the  idea of  pretty-lambdas,  here  is  a pretty-greek  to
> compose  all  greek letters,  which  is  useful  when you're  writting
> mathematical algorithms:

But why not use the actual greek letter for those cases?
For lambda, it made sense to use this compose kludge because the `lambda'
symbol has a special meaning, but in your case, it seems easier and more
robust to just use the right letter from the start.



        Stefan

       reply	other threads:[~2003-12-08  2:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87ekvg6uxn.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>
2003-12-08  2:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-12-08  3:47   ` pretty-lambdas -> pretty-greek Pascal Bourguignon

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