Hmmm, I tried again and it worked in command line REPL and Geiser. Weird, I was remembering something did not work. Perhaps it was only when I needed lambda* or something. Great, I can use it more often again!
On 1/28/20 1:44 AM, Jose A. Ortega Ruiz wrote: > On Tue, Jan 28 2020, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote: > >> On 1/27/20 2:03 PM, Marc Chantreux wrote: >>> hello, >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 12:30:51AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>>> Did you try it? >>> i never seen λ used in the documentation or code so what i actually >>> wrote a macro: >>> (define-syntax λ >>> (syntax-rules () >>> ((λ sign ...) >>> (lambda sign ...)))) >>> >>> i just removed it and the code is still working. thanks a lot. >>> >>> marc >>> >> The thing is, it does not work in Geiser in Emacs. > Hmm, it does work for me. For instance, this simple example > > (define-module (foo)) > > (define foo (λ () 3)) > > in foo.scm does what i expect. Also using λ directly in the REPL works > for me. What behaviour are you observing instead? Could it be that > you're not using UTF-8 as your encoding? > > Cheers, > jao
