Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net> writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Now that we have Unicode, let’s not put it to good use!
>>
>> (define-syntax λ
>> (syntax-rules ()
>> ((_ formals body ...)
>> (lambda formals body ...))))
>
> Can it be overridden?
Yes. In the end it boils down to ‘module-define!’.
> Just in case someone writes an algorithm where they'd really like to
> have λ as a variable?
One can always use ‘λ’ or ‘lambda’ as a local variable name:
(let ((λ 2))
(+ λ 3))
> If the answer to the above is Yes, definitely.
Cool, let’s do it! :-)
(Then we’ll want “’” for ‘quote’, “‘” for ‘quasiquote’, etc. etc.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
