On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 11:10:11AM -0700, Fernando Perez wrote: > > LR: It would be great to use unicode math operators. > > On this issue, Fortress is being foresightful. > > Accepting the "times" symbol would be a fairly small move > > for most users, since it is in the Latin 1 extension of > > ASCII.
> I'll be sure to list this as part of the received feedback. I'm > personally not too crazy about unicode operators (at least not to the > extent that Fortress went, where basically a special IDE would be > required to write the code in any reasonable scenario). But I'm > willing to change my mind, and I'm *definitely* acting as scribe here, > so everything that is presented will be reported back. I am very much against unicode operators. I can see a huge amount of problems this will generate, for little gain. There are still some possibilities to use a plain ascii character (I can think of '^', '/', '$', '!', althought each one of these might lead to confusion, and they have a feeling of perl). Could we also go for multiple cahracter operators? Anybody care for '.*'? Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
