Hardly, considering its appearance in many programming languages. Although I would argue similarly that, if the ternary operator is terse and cryptic and needs

Hardly, considering its appearance in many programming languages. Although I would argue similarly that, if the ternary operator is terse and cryptic and needs to be changed to 'if ... then ... else ...'; then '->' and '=>' are equally terse and cryptic and should be kept as 'function'. It says what it does then, doesn't it?