Re: z ip

2004-03-29 Thread Juerd
Piers Cawley skribis 2004-03-29 16:33 (+0100): > You'll really confuse the deep functional programmers if you do that, > for whom the term 'Y operator' means something very different Probably, but is that a good reason to not use it? Many Perl 6 things will already really confuse Perl 5 programme

Re: z ip

2004-03-29 Thread Piers Cawley
"Mark J. Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think the ¥(yen) suggestion is great, especially since it does indeed >> look like a zipper. Still, I would very much like an ASCII infix >> alternative for zip(). > >> I propose z as the ASCII alternative for the infix zip operator (either >> broken

Re: z ip

2004-03-22 Thread James Mastros
Mark J. Reed wrote: One obvious reason for reaching out to unicode characters is the restricted number of non-alphanumeric characters in ASCII. But why do infix operators have to be non-alphanumeric? They don't - but they do have to "look like operators". Thanks to the multiplication symbol, lowe

Re: z ip

2004-03-22 Thread Mark J. Reed
Juerd: your message arrived in my inbox as an attachment due to a mail server along the way not recognizing the "charset" value. It should be "utf-8" with the hyphen, not "utf8". Also for that reason all the non-ASCII characters (like the Yen symbol) came through as '?' here. > Kara Perlistoj,

Re: z ip

2004-03-21 Thread Juerd
> I have quite a few fonts, the only one I can find where | is a broken > bar is "Terminal", a font for DOS programs that uses the cp437 > charset, which is incompatable with latin1 (? and ? are AE and AF > instead of AB and BB) and it dosen't even havI have quite a few fonts, > the only one I can

Re: z ip

2004-03-21 Thread Goplat
--- Juerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kara Perlistoj, > > the zip operator is a useful one. I like it a lot. But I've been writing > zip() all the time, even though I think an infix operator is nicer. (Not > for for though, because you also have commas in the pointy sub's > parameter list.) > >

z ip

2004-03-21 Thread Juerd
Kara Perlistoj, the zip operator is a useful one. I like it a lot. But I've been writing zip() all the time, even though I think an infix operator is nicer. (Not for for though, because you also have commas in the pointy sub's parameter list.) However, the broken bar is in my opinion a bad choice