On Monday, September 24, 2018 4:19:31 AM MDT Dennis via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 01:32:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > D the language is well suited to the development of Unicode > > apps. D source code is another matter. > > But in the article you specifically talk about the use of Unicode > in the context of source code instead of apps: > > "With the D programming language, we continuously run up against > the problem that ASCII has reached its expressivity limits." > > "There are the chevrons « and » which serve as another set of > brackets to lighten the overburdened ambiguities of ( ). There > are the dot-product and cross-product characters · and × which > would make lovely infix operator tokens for math libraries. The > greek letters would be great for math variable names."
Given that the typical keyboard has none of those characters, maintaining code that used any of them would be a royal pain. It's one thing if they're used in the occasional string as data, but it's quite another if they're used as identifiers or operators. I don't see how that would be at all maintainable. You'd be forced to constantly copy and paste rather than type. - Jonathan M Davis
