Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators

From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date	2024-08-28 12:46 -0700
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Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> writes:
> I personally hate all operators.  That said, i agree with the general idea 
> that Unicode has a lot of symbols out of ASCII that are underutilized.  C 
> has limitations on what symbols are permitted in identifiers, but in 
> previous projects of mine, i was able to work within that prison and used 
> the · character for a sort of psuedonamespacing.  (I later abandoned this 
> practice for other reasons.)

A problem with using non-ASCII Unicode characters as operator
names is that they can be difficult to type -- and the way you type
them is inconsistent across systems.

There's nothing wrong with using identifiers as operator names.
C already does this with "sizeof" et al.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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about some potentially interesting unicode operators fir <fir@grunge.pl> - 2024-08-28 01:58 +0200
  Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2024-08-28 14:17 +0000
    Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 12:46 -0700
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 13:30 -0700
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-28 23:15 +0000
        Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-28 17:04 -0700
          Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-08-29 04:07 +0200
            Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-08-29 17:17 +0200
              Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 09:59 -0700
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-29 23:02 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-08-29 20:18 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-29 23:32 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-08-29 21:24 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2024-08-30 13:50 +0300
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 13:41 -0700
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-30 03:16 +0000
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2024-08-29 21:35 -0700
                Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-31 00:01 +0000
          Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-29 05:58 +0000
          Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2024-08-29 12:51 +0200
    Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-28 23:13 +0000
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2024-08-29 03:36 +0200
      Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators fir <fir@grunge.pl> - 2024-08-29 10:45 +0200
  Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-08-28 23:11 +0000
  Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-09-05 07:07 +0000

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