> Looks cool but why the λ and ƒ? That's not practical for anyone.
> it seems strange to include characters that aren't on the keyboard as part of the default syntax
You say "not practical for anyone" and "seems strange", but maybe restricting a computer language to ASCII only is stange. With Pinyin IME's (e.g. Google's or Baidu's) people can easily and quickly enter thousands of characters not on the keyboard. It would be easy to someone to develop an IME to enable symbols to similarly be entered - (I mean a non-specific-IDE-based one, i.e. without having to go thru Eclipse or Emacs).
> it seems strange to include characters that aren't on the keyboard as part of the default syntax
You say "not practical for anyone" and "seems strange", but maybe restricting a computer language to ASCII only is stange. With Pinyin IME's (e.g. Google's or Baidu's) people can easily and quickly enter thousands of characters not on the keyboard. It would be easy to someone to develop an IME to enable symbols to similarly be entered - (I mean a non-specific-IDE-based one, i.e. without having to go thru Eclipse or Emacs).