On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Eric Jablow <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Mar 14, 4:20 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2011/3/14 Alexey Zinger <[email protected]>
> >
>
> > I certainly agree that a few people in our community have a strange sense
> of
> > readability, such as people who think that ":->>" is a fine name for a
> > method <http://twitter.com/#!/psnively/status/47304518869848065> (here
> is my
> > original tweet <http://twitter.com/#!/cbeust/status/47151793817403392>)
> :-)
> >
>
> I do wish that Java would allow Unicode equivalents for certain
> operators.  In a UTF-8 source code file, if (a ≤ b) seems preferable to if
> (a <= b).
>

Well, that's a slightly different debate and I'm feeling a bit more open to
that idea. I think it's important for identifiers to contain a minimum
number of English words so that you can actually understand and pronounce
that name out loud, but non alphabetical characters should make up a very
tiny proportion of such names. I can't really come up with a good example
off the top of my head, though (e.g. "convertToDegrees()" ->
"convertTo°()").

-- 
Cédric

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