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concatenation operator glyph

From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	concatenation operator glyph
Date	2014-07-27 10:31 -0700
Organization	Canadian Mind Products
Message-ID	<tkdat9h5v0qusrdqpbevhmj7gomcrrsnjl@4ax.com> (permalink)

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I have bugged the Unicode consortium to assign a code point for a
concatenation operator. If they say yes, the problem arises, what
should the corresponding glyph look like?

It should visually suggest joining.  I think should be left-right
symmetrical to reflect the symmetry of the operation. It should be
distinct from other symbols even at small font sizes.

This is a different problem from how to represent concatenation in
Java. It would be used in mathematical papers, documentation, and
perhaps published Java listings.


-- 
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
The art of strongly-typed language design is largely arranging 
that errors are automatically detected as soon as possible
in the compose, compile, run cycle.

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concatenation operator glyph Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-27 10:31 -0700
  Re: concatenation operator glyph Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-27 10:47 -0700
  Re: concatenation operator glyph Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-07-28 13:19 +0200
    Re: concatenation operator glyph Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-07-28 07:47 -0700
      Re: concatenation operator glyph Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2014-07-28 18:11 +0200
      Re: concatenation operator glyph Silvio <silvio@internet.com> - 2014-07-28 19:01 +0200

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