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Nerdy syntactic sugar to allow the Greek letter lambda for Procs in Ruby.
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greek_lambda.rb
# encoding: UTF-8
module Kernel
alias_method :λ, :lambda
end
=begin
Allows code like this, using the actual Greek λ character:
add1 = λ { |x| x + 1 }
puts "add1.call(2) = " + add1.call(2).to_s + "\n"
=end
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