Well, they may be workable.  But it is 2007, sooner or later one should be 
able to write mathematical code in mathematical symbols.  How much longer is 
paper going to be much more flexible then computers for writing things down? 
:)


>From: Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com>
>Reply-To: The general-purpose Squeak developers 
>list<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
>To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>Subject: Re: Squeak-dev/Squeak-web image v95-2
>Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:05:49 -0700
>
>J J wrote:
>>[1] In Haskell one becomes aware of the limitations of using ASCII right 
>>away.  The compose symbol (normally a circle) is the period.  They decided 
>>to use the \ symbol for lambdas (!!!) since that was the closest graphic 
>>available.
>
>For what it's worth, I think both of those choices work well for haskell, 
>and in a modern emacs and with a lucky font choice :), (setq 
>haskell-font-lock-symbols 'unicode) makes them look great!
>
>

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