On Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:48:20 -0700, alex.jakime...@gmail.com wrote: > We had a bunch of segfaults
Segfaults are program memory access errors. Here, we're talking about well-defined behaviour that you wish to make more complex on entirely arbitrary whim by special-casing the compiler, documentation, tests, and any program that relies on this well-defined behaviour. What baffles me is we have several people calling for the ban on The Superscripts yet, no one appears appear to have any issues with ⅟², 𑁓², ౸², ㆒², 𐌣², and 𑁒² which are also perfectly valid sequences. I'll tell you why, because no one typed that crap up on IRC and then said it looks weird to them. It's the sole reason this ticket exists and there's isn't a single real program in the world where making superscripts special-cased and erroring out on them would've done any good. The price of your proposal is unwanted complexity and IMO your justification for introducing it is entirely insufficient, poorly-defined, and arbitrary. The purpose of errors is to help people, not to make the language more complex.
