On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:48 , Andy Earnshaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking about this subject a while ago and found an interesting thread > [1] on the Scala debate mailing list. I was going to raise this question > back then, but I forgot about it until now. If I understand correctly, > several Unicode symbols are aliases for ASCII operators, for example: > > => ⇒ // implemented > <- ← // implemented > -> → // implemented > > > At the time I saw this, I thought it was pretty interesting. The thread goes > on to suggest more could be implemented: > >= ≥ > <= ≤ > > * × multiplication // this one's probably an ASCII approximation > / ÷ division > ! ¬ logical negation > ^ ⊕ exclusive or > != ≠ not equal > > Perhaps we could think about this for ECMAScript, along with the rest(e.g. ≈ > for == and ≡ for ===). Would there be any harm in it if we kept the ASCII > equivalents intact? By putting them in we may be looking toward the future > where this kind of thing is (hopefully) more common in programming languages > (and on keyboards). > > Andy > > [1] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4723 Earlier discussion: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-April/thread.html#22077 Norbert _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
