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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