Re: Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
> Speaking of which, the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former > is _one_ character. But Y, compared to ¥, is one character only as > well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, > afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the > "official" one?!? I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I prefer ¥ because I don't like infix operators that look like identifiers. It's idiosyncratic, admittedly, but I dislike Pascal's "mod" and Perl5's "x" for the same reason. Even with the ability to use Unicode names, ¥ can't be an identifier, because it's not a letter, it's a currency symbol. Now that we've opened up the Pandora's box of Unicode, we have lots more letters, but also lots more non-letters, and I'd rather see the latter used for operators. Just my 2¢. :)
Re: Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Rutger Vos wrote: _one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the "official" one?!? Do you even need to ask? It's because it *looks cool* :) Does it? Guillemets _do_ look kool, but I don't by the argument for the Yen symbol... Michele -- Is e+pi a rational or irrational number? Yes, it is. - Robert Israel in sci.math, "Re: A Number Problem"
Re: Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
Speaking of which the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former is _one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the "official" one?!? Do you even need to ask? It's because it *looks cool* :) We need *more* of these. I can't wait until the day when I can finally code in overloaded Tagalog or Gujarati: http://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/~alt/html/unicode_23.html
Y [was: "Re: new sigil"]
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Juerd wrote: All non-ASCII operators have ASCII equivalents: ¥ Y « << » >> Speaking of which the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former is _one_ charachter. But Y, compared to ¥, is one charachter only as well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the "official" one?!? Michele -- Commander Helena Braddock: So, where is everybody? Melanie Ballard: Yeah, Friday night, the whole place should be packed. A whole twelve hours before sun up and there's money to burn, whores to fuck and drugs to take. - Gosts of Mars (2001)
