On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:37 PM, David Herman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mar 3, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Dean Landolt wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:20 PM, David Herman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This argument seems to over-reach. C and C++ use -> for pointer >> indirection. Perl uses -> for method calls. >> > > This is precisely why it can't really be overloaded any further. > > > It's not "overloading" when different languages use a symbol for different > purposes. They're different languages-- they are by definition different > notational systems! There's not some global registry of ASCII art where > each language stakes a permanent claim to a universal meaning for a given > symbol. > > There's tons of precedent for -> to be visually interpreted as an arrow > and for arrows to be used for different purposes. That there is variety > across languages is evidence of the *flexibility* of the symbol, not of its > being closed off to repurposing. > > Does it *have* to be ascii? The growlix space of unicode is vast: > https://plus.google.com/109925364564856140495/posts > > Reaching into the depths of unicode was roundly panned during the function > shorthand debates but Allen's reach for ◁ is compelling -- is it really > so bad to just go all in for it? > > > Yes. There are so many points in the pipeline, from programmer to server > to router to browser, where encoding bugs can crop up. And anyway the point > is *not* to make it look like an exotic alien glyph in the middle of a > program. :) > > FWIW I personally think <| is just fine :) > > > All I can say is it looks terrible. I don't have any way to quantify that, > of course. > I will gladly do a survey of the web development community to satisfy any requests for qualification. I also think it looks terrible - because it does. The concept is tremendously awesome, the representation is unfortunate. Rick > > Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > >
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