On Thursday, 6 August 2015 at 14:14:30 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Wow. The only way that I'd know how to get those characters
would be to copy-paste them from somewhere. I'm sure that
there's a far easier way to generate them, but if a symbol
isn't actually on my keyboard, I wouldn't have a clue how to
type it, and I would have thought that support for typing it
would be editor-specific. In general, I would have expected it
to be a total disaster if a language used any non-ASCII
characters in its syntax.
I think it is a big advantage if the default editor and syntax is
developed in tandem, it can enable less cluttered syntax and a
better editing experience. Some syntaxes can improve a lot by
having sensible colouring/visual layout.
On many non-US keyboards the C-language syntax-characters are put
in annoying positions too.
To get braces "{}" I have to type: alt-shift-8 alt-shift-9.
To get "<=" I have to type: < shift-0
To get "≤" I type: alt-<
