• Unicode: 2190.
  • Alias: <-.
  • Infix arrow operator.
  • x y is by default interpreted as LeftArrow[x,y].
  • Sometimes used in computer science to indicate assignment: x gets value y.
  • Extensible character.

See Also

\[LongLeftArrow]  \[ShortLeftArrow]  \[DoubleLeftArrow]  \[LeftTeeArrow]  \[LeftArrowBar]  \[LowerLeftArrow]  \[LeftVector]  \[LeftTriangle]  \[RightArrow]

Tutorials

Introduced in 1996
(3.0)