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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:22:10 -0400
From: Dave Angel <d@davea.name>
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On 07/23/2012 09:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage
>> of the full unicode character set.  Right now, we're working in ASCII
>> and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes for multi-line
>> strings).  Not to mention <=, >=, ==, !=.  And in languages other than
>> python, things like ->, => (arrows for structure membership), and so on.
> REXX predates Unicode, I think, or at least its widespread adoption,
> but it has a non-ASCII operator:
>
> http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html#operators
>
> But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with
> ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you
> get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly
> generally available keyboards that have those keys.
>
> ChrisA


Keyboards with 110,000 keys on them; wonderful.  And much larger
characters on the screen, so that all those can be distinguished.  And
of course all fonts have to support all those characters.

Back to 20 character lines.

-- 

DaveA