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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:31:26 +1100
Subject: Re: Time we switched to unicode? (was Explanation of this Python language feature?)
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> So let me talk of which input methods I use -- devanagari and tex.
> I have devanagari-itrans set up in emacs as default (other) input method
> So Ctrl-\ (ie 1=C2=BD keystrokes) puts emacs into devanagari mode

Yes, but putting emacs into a different mode, typing one letter, and
putting it back into the other mode is going to be more like 5
keystrokes. And that lets you have just one other input method; if you
have more than two, the cost will be higher. So replacing "lambda"
with "=CE=BB" is a minimal saving, practically zip [1] when you consider
the readability cost of having two ways of spelling the exact same
thing. For this to be useful, you'd need to be able to both read and
write much more efficiently. It has to be something where you can
quickly switch from ASCII letters and symbols to a non-ASCII lambda
and back to ASCII for the arguments and expression.

ChrisA

[1] No offense meant to the builtin function!