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From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using 'λ'
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 20:30:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lg72rput.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnwenjr6.fsf@tobias.gr> (Tobias Geerinckx-Rice's message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:55:41 +0200")

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Hi T G-R,

Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> writes:

> Alex,
>
> Alex Vong wrote:
>> Hello guix,
>>
>> Should we allow the use of 'λ' 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!).
>
> One of those 'λ's is probably mine, but it is indeed discouraged. I
> also forget why.
>
> I now use global-prettify-symbols-mode to create my own reality.
>
Thanks! I've tried it just now. It works except that the column number
is not right (it counts λ as 2 chars instead of 6 chars). Similar modes
such as glass-mode doesn't have this problem. Do you know of any way to
fix it?

> Kind regards,
>
> T G-R

Cheers,
Alex

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-10-13 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-13  8:51 Using 'λ' Alex Vong
2018-10-13 11:55 ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2018-10-13 12:30   ` Alex Vong [this message]
2018-10-13 17:17 ` Leo Famulari
2018-10-14  7:04 ` Efraim Flashner
2018-10-14  8:01   ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-14 19:10     ` Alex Vong
2018-10-14 19:29       ` Chris Marusich
2018-10-15  9:45         ` Ludovic Courtès

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