Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Juerd
Jan Dubois skribis 2005-10-25 12:33 (-0700): > Just something to keep in mind in case you are tempted to use the Won > sign as a sigil or operator in the future. I don't know what stitch() will do, but this will have to be its infix operator :) zip ¥ Y stitch w Juerd -- h

RE: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Larry Wall wrote: > As for the ¥ pitfall, so far we've intentionally been careful to use > it only where an operator is expected, whereas \ is legal only where a > term is expected. So at least for Perl code, we can translate legacy > ¥ to different codepoints. (Whether the J

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
: On 10/23/05, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > In addition to your handy table, the >> and << french quotes, which are used : > quite heavily in Perl 6 for both bracketing and hyper operators, also have : > full width equivalents: : > : > 300A;LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE BRACKET;Ps;0;ON;Y;OP

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-25 Thread Larry Wall
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:55:34PM +0900, Dan Kogai wrote: : To make the matter worse, there are not just one "yen sign" in : Unicode. Take a look at this. : : ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN : ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN : : Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers handle them : differently.

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Rob Kinyon
On 10/23/05, Autrijus Tang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Kogai wrote: > > To make the matter worse, there are not just one "yen sign" in Unicode. > > Take a look at this. > > > > ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN > > ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN > > > > Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers han

Re: Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Autrijus Tang
Dan Kogai wrote: > To make the matter worse, there are not just one "yen sign" in Unicode. > Take a look at this. > > ¥ U+00A5 YEN SIGN > ¥ U+FFE5 FULLWIDTH YEN SIGN > > Tough they look and groks the same to human, computers handle them > differently. This happened when Unicode Consortium decided

Avoid the Yen Sign [Was: Re: new sigil]

2005-10-23 Thread Dan Kogai
Maeda-san and the list members, Thank you for raising this issue and sorry for not raising this myself. On Oct 22, 2005, at 19:42 , Kaoru Maeda wrote: If we find a lot of yen sign as zip-operator in the standard library, we have a big question: "Give up either Perl6 or Windows. Which do we a