On 8/8/06, Talin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Part 1: The concrete proposal part.
>
> I noticed that a lot of folks seemed to like the idea of making the
> empty set resemble the greek letter Phi, using a combination of
> parentheses and the vertical bar or forward slash character.
>
> So lets expand on this: slice Phi in half and say that (| and |) are
> delimiters for a set literal, as follows:
>
> (|) # Empty set
>
> (|a|) # Set with 1 item
>
> (|a,b|) # Set with 2 items
>
> The advantage of this proposal is that it maintains visual consistency
> between the 0, 1, and N element cases.
-1.
This attempts to solve the lack of an empty set literal in the current
best proposal, which is set(), {1}, {1, 2}, {1, 2, 3} etc. But it does
so at the tremendous cost of inventing new unfamiliar brackets.
> Part 2: The idle speculation part, not to be considered as a actual
> proposal.
[...]
> The syntax that comes to mind is something like this:
>
> a = b|c
This would be ambiguous since b|c also means set union.
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