Ken Fox wrote:
I know I'm just another sample point in a sea of samples, but my embedded symbol parser seems optimized for alphabetic symbols. The cool non-alphabetic Unicode symbols are beautiful to look at, but they don't help me read or write faster.
Once again: we're only talking about « and ».
There are rare exceptions (like grouping)
E.g. « and » ;-)
where I strongly prefer non-alphabetics, but otherwise alphabetics help me get past the "what is this code?" phase and into the "what does this code do?" phase as quickly as possible.
Interestingly, I find it just the opposite. The use of symbolic operators makes it easier for me to differentiate the "nouns", "verbs", and "punctuation" of a piece of code. Damian
