From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Efraim Flashner Subject: Re: Using =?utf-8?Q?'=CE=BB'?= Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:04:53 +0300 Message-ID: <20181014070453.GH1127@macbook41> References: <87pnwerzyz.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36777) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBaSS-00073B-DW for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:05:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBaSN-0004F2-F6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:05:00 -0400 Received: from flashner.co.il ([178.62.234.194]:54204) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gBaSN-0004Ew-7c for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:04:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87pnwerzyz.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Alex Vong Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org --zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote: > Hello guix, >=20 > Should we allow the use of '=CE=BB' in guix? I think we have discussed it > before, but I forget why it was rejected. Running 'rgrep' on source > shows 7 uses of it. I think it is syntactically more pleasant and it > encourges the use of short functions (at least for me!). >=20 I know it's lambda, but to me it's like the =E2=93=92 symbol. When I need t= o use it I have to copy-paste it from somewhere else. I'm guessing as others have mentioned, if you didn't recognize the Greek letter or come in knowing some lisp then it's a wierd symbol that makes it harder to read the source. --=20 Efraim Flashner =D7=90=D7=A4=D7=A8=D7=99=D7=9D = =D7=A4=D7=9C=D7=A9=D7=A0=D7=A8 GPG key =3D A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted --zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCgAdFiEEoov0DD5VE3JmLRT3Qarn3Mo9g1EFAlvC6pQACgkQQarn3Mo9 g1GcORAAjnzD4vjXbnZore6T/TzNirzFNsqNcs3fRwEVtTWcfUhyq39tgr0RHu5A n+Mp5cwKkHGy1Kci9zhHIXqnqjCpLx1crMElYcBF4f2HGu8zRQlVBKUZ+5REm/dK /lh1JJjS7p1hNcVWCe0wCIAHoRc56N2svOl+FoVrOeqMvDt72G+33PCu7RIAIFDi B8KusSyKRIZlNTqGcvnFqaffBxzo57LAoJ3l3XNID1Syel/oNvRgbLcaKN4O3Wow 1ylaZTWdo5QfF6jHYhqFxodDm25E1gc6V/ecygwDdO/x3WWv8sGPmxbjTuhTl1r6 RBpvVvTgMfhKvjEIqIvGWxCbodgep1nehnm0+avkIIKVytBhMYVWgJ0rTjGorC7b fkxI7rJ64tqGoeVT8uMALeUXU5xgoybtd94FCSfxyvNy/Cl/B5p8He08saur673K ydI6bC3SCERxEp+2iR0eJTAA/LFqr919XS1OglntkzrVsEoKZ3Sz75CgV/Wz+c/7 2dUtuaxWRkkEZ1Nd+xNI5k9letKFBPSKV5ud45J3Bd41EVqe4koOqnx+nQ9s4Wig VxAGaaRxdYGDjxAqNX9yPiNWMzf64acUr6CrowbCLNjudzBuiDnOoLPgiGuR2jt3 /5VLzI3/YQ5mIA+xirn3wDhQzIR3h6ww4ahtXp3XZdmD+QnYdUU= =C2Ef -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --zGQnqpIoxlsbsOfg--