Need more shift keys!
I'm pretty sure if I used them every day, I'd learn pretty quickly that « &
» are from opt-\ and shift-opt-\, and ‹ & › are from shift-opt-3 & 4.
Windows users ... are on their own. Find a use for the
otherwise-poorly-used numeric keypad, maybe. (Sometimes I wish Macs could
tell the difference between 1 and keypad-1, etc, like Windows can. It'd
give me a whole new set of hotkeys. :)
On a (slightly) more serious note -- Would multiple-punctuation-character
symbols work? {< and >}, or (< and >) ? Or <( and )> / <{ & }>. I kind
of like these last two. Nesting is ... iffy, I guess?
<(<(stuff, <(stuff)>, stuff)>, stuff)>
I'm sure there would be screams, and shouting about Perl, etc.
— Larry
^ an M-dash, haha. Shift-opt-minus. Easy-peasy.
On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 8:01:14 PM UTC-4, Axel Wagner wrote:
>
> And while we're at it, why "func", instead of the far simpler λ, or "type"
> instead of τ, or "include", instead of ι, "const" instead of κ and "war"
> instead of ω. We can do ρ instead of "range", φ instead of "for", ν is
> "new" and μ is "make", obviously. And while we're at it, let's also use ≥
> and ≤ and ≠. No * and /, just • and ÷. ¬, ∨, ∧ of course for booleans. ←
> and → for channel ops and short variable declaration with ≔.
>
> The answer is, that most people don't know how to enter any of these and
> the ones that do don't want to be bothered having to change their
> keyboard-mapping or hammering there num-block for every (or, really, any)
> line of code :)
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:34 AM Wojciech S. Czarnecki <oh...@fairbe.org
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I can not understand why, way in the XXIst century, in a language that
>> from
>> the beginning supports for unicode identifiers we are at ascii charset
>> overloading bikeshed. Why type `type` or (in other proposal $, or <> or
>> [] or
>> whatever<128) if I might press Super-T and get ʧ. Or press Super-G and
>> get ʭ.
>>
>> I hear that only gurus will write generic code. Might it be, but
>> thousands of
>> rookies should be able to read this generic code before they make their
>> first
>> commit.
>>
>> Gurus will know how to map their keyboards. Rookies on their (win)
>> machines
>> have circa 1000 glyphs in basic system fonts. (On any linux distro have
>> over
>> 3000).
>>
>> Why on earth keep on ascii?
>>
>> IPA: ʅ ʧ ʭ (0x285, 0x2a7, 0x2ad)
>> Latin-E: « » ¦
>> Latin-A: Ħ ŧ Ŧ Ɏ
>> Latin-B: ǁ ǂ
>>
>> --
>> Wojciech S. Czarnecki
>> << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE
>>
>
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