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This is certainly not the case. Some, but by no means all, of the core maintainers prefer the unicode glyph, but the vast majority of the code uses a spelled-ou

by tonyg 9y ago

This is certainly not the case. Some, but by no means all, of the core maintainers prefer the unicode glyph, but the vast majority of the code uses a spelled-out lambda. In my current checkout of the codebase, I see the following: ~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ ag lambda **/*.rkt | wc -l 1041 ~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ ag λ **/*.rkt | wc -l 163 Note also consistent usage of spelled-out lambda in the Racket style guide, https://docs.racket-lang.org/style/ https://docs.racket-lang.org/style/.

tonyg 9y ago
I made a mistake, believing that `ag` could handle extended glob syntax. The real numbers are: ~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ find . -iname '*.rkt' | xargs ag lambda | wc -l 33589 ~/src/racket/racket/share/pkgs$ find . -iname '*.rkt' | xargs ag λ | wc -l 16722 Glyph λ is more common than I thought, but still heavily outnumbered by spelled-out lambda.