From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using 'λ'
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:17:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181013171707.GB4832@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnwerzyz.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 04:51:48PM +0800, 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!).
I think it's a little too obscure for non-Schemers coming to Guix. The
Guix packaging EDSL is readable with basically no Scheme knowledge at
all. For that reason, I'd avoid λ in the packages, at least.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-13 17:17 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
2018-10-13 17:17 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
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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