On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 07:58:53 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 06:57:48 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
immutable π = 3.14;
Oh, the horror!
With the assumption pi is declared elsewhere (say, in
std.math), what i wonder is the number for pi vs 2 letters.
Unicode 03C0h, so now i have to convert that to decimal, code
960. Alt+960 = └
That's not pi... Looking up the symbol by itself in the
character map was annoying enough. No, this is not a good idea
unless it's easily accessible, preferably with 2 or fewer
keystrokes to symbolize pi.
As a reminder most of us are programmers, not scientists or
mathematicians. Having specialized symbols won't give us any
benefit. It's not like we're filling out a complex formula with
college level math for a thesis.
Didn't we have "pitching D to academia" thread recently?
Honestly, any tool can be abused. Javascript, Swift and even
partially Haskell allow unicode names and I'm sure we all saw
that toy example that was full of emojis, but can you say it has
been a problem in practice?
