I would rather have them as well defined operators, rather than allowed as
parts of identifiers, which would have been more consistent with other
things in Julia, like sqrt() and cbrt() using the Unicode symbols as prefix
operators, however, the reactions included things like pry them from my
I think I've flipped my position back and forth 6 times in the last few
minutes while thinking about this. The mathematician in me wants those
special characters to be well defined operators with the expected
precedence, but the computer scientist in me thinks that's a horribly
stupid idea
In my eyes this is a non issue. Symbols are symbols, 'x' is a symbol, '³'
is a symbol, '∛' is a symbol. They all work the same. When you allow
unicode it is always possible to write confusing code.
On Friday, July 3, 2015 at 5:25:00 AM UTC+2, Scott Jones wrote:
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