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I believe the `\` character for functions is original to Haskell. Miranda does not have anonymous functions as a part of the language.

• pezezin 2y ago
  The \ is a simplified lambda, because most programmers can't type λ easily.
  • robertlagrant 2y ago
    I would be very in favour of making λ a keyword, though. Maybe a linter could convert \ to λ.
    • iso8859-1 2y ago
      it would be confusing since it's not part of UnicodeSyntax https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/unicode_syntax.html https://ghc.gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/doc/users_guide/exts/unic...
      • robertlagrant 2y ago
        Well, even better to add it to that! But I was thinking generally, to be honest. I really want Python to synonimise the keyword lamdba with the λ symbol so I can golf my Advent of Code code better.
        • robertlagrant 2y ago
          Argh. Synonymise.