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Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:11:32 +0000, Andy Walker wrote:
> 
>> In particular, you couldn't rely on "[]" being available.
> 
> I still feel that Unicode, with all its richness, could do with a wider 
> choice of bracketing symbols. E.g. I have started using “«” and “»” for 
> delimiting metasyntactic variables, as in
> 
>     cp [«options» ...] «src-file» «dst-file»
> 
> but French people would see those as quotation marks. ;)

If you do not insist on single character there is a lot of
resonable two character combinations.  It was mentioned that
Pascal used '(*', '*)' and '(.', '.)' pairs.  I have seen
'<<', '>>', '<:', ':>', '(|', '|)', '[|', '|]', '{|', '|}'
in use.  What kind of sensible syntax needs large _fixed_
number of brackets?  Note that in expression language
one can easily get away with using only parenthesis.
Matching brackets were used to construct various types
of data structures, but for that normally one needs just
a few.  If you want to construct many different data
structures, then it is better to have some regular pattern,
like name of data type and fixed bracket pair (the same
for all types).

-- 
                              Waldek Hebisch

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                Re: Algol 68 - array of procedures aligned at index 0 ? antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) - 2025-11-08 03:50 +0000
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