[plt-dev] In DrScheme, How to display lambda in source code as λ

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 9 10:56:24 EST 2009

At Sun, 8 Feb 2009 22:09:22 -0600, Grant Rettke wrote:
> In DrScheme I would like to be able to leave 'lambda' in the source
> code but render it is λ ala Quack.
> 
> May you please give me some pointers on how one might achieve this?

You could convert "lambda" to a snip that draws itself as "λ" but
reports its text form as "lambda". (That's how DrScheme used to work.)
You'd need to tell DrScheme to save the file in text mode instead of
graphical mode, though, and I don't know/remember how that works.


Matthew



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