Expression closures - use-cases for shortcut lambda syntax (blocks)

[John Cowan]

Peter Hall scripsit:
> I think, once I've figured out how to actually type "?" on my UK
> keyboard (I actually don't know how to enter 0x03BB in my keyboard, I
> had to paste from charmap), I might as well have typed "function(".

Hence the desire to allow \ as a synonym.

> Also, "?" is a perfectly permissable character for an identifier.
> Wouldn't it cause problems to  give it special meaning? (for Greeks
> especially)

Not really, no more than it causes problems to give "if" special
meaning.

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