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Jul 2, 2017 at 2:03 comment added Todd Trimble Mac Lane even says as much in Categories for the Working Mathematician, as mentioned by Gjergji.
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Jun 28, 2017 at 18:03 comment added KConrad Yes the page hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/5772/…, which is about $\mapsto$ rather than $\rightarrow$, suggests $\rightarrow$ for functions went back to Hurewicz.
Jun 28, 2017 at 11:12 comment added Jeff Strom I'm pretty sure that the notation $f:X\to Y$ was introduced shortly before Eilenberg-MacLane (as a replacement for $f(X)\subset Y$ or the like) by, maybe, Hurewicz.
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