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		DrDeadCrash on Oct 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Introduction to the λ-Calculus The characters in OP's arrow function have the benefit of being available on a standard keyboard layout. This has proven to be an important syntactic feature, imo.

quibono on Oct 5, 2024 [–]

Haskell uses a single backslash \ in place of λ

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