`op` was supposed to have two backticks, as used in Haskell. 2009/3/5 Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>: > More detail here than I can process. What I (think I) need is a quick > summary of keys to avoid because they are dead keys on some keyboards. > Is there a summary of something like that somewhere?
At least on western keyboards, dead keys are those that can be placed on top of a latin character, such as accents (ticks), caret, umlaut and tilde. I think that's it: avoid accents, caret and tilde. In addition, I've noticed that the pipe symbol is sometimes hard to type on laptops, but I haven't got any alternatives in mind. In truth, even dead keys are probably not that bad: everyone finds a way to write C-like languages. I haven't felt the need to switch keyboard layout when coding Haskell - I just automatically hit space after typing a dead key. C bitwise operators (incl. caret and tilde) are fine because they are not needed all that often. In addition, some Linux distributions have an easy installation option to switch dead keys off. Just no ^~~~> operators, thanks. :) Aleksi Nurmi _______________________________________________ bitc-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.coyotos.org/mailman/listinfo/bitc-dev
