On Jan 25, 2008 10:32 AM, Christian Heimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Leif Walsh wrote: > > Out of almost-pure devil's advocacy, has <> been considered? My first > > instinct is that it would be ambiguous with less-than/greater-than, > > but if someone can convince me otherwise, might it work? After all, > > it's the only other balanced pair of punctuation I see on my keyboard. > > There are also « and », << and >> for those w/o UTF-8 support in their > mail client. On my keyboard the characters are available under [alt gr] > + y and x. > They aren't available on my keyboard, nor on most US keyboards I would reckon. You can still type them if you know how (and I happen to know how in any of my environments) but it would limit the set literals to a particular set of source encodings (most notably, not ASCII.) I find this an extremely disturbing idea. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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