Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Autrijus Tang
Juerd wrote: I do not see why $ and @ couldn't be both a sigil and an infix operator, and the same goes for whatever ASCII equivalent ¢ gets. ^ and | are available for sigil use. (All the closing brackets are too, but that would be very confusing because we tend to visually parse those in

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: Where did you get ALT-155 from? Code page 437: http://www.kostis.net/charsets/cp437.htm On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:07:47AM -0500, Steve Peters wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +0100, Carl Franks wrote: Where did you get

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread John Adams
-Original Message- From: Nicholas Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] And for anyone who says upgrade, please note that many firms in the real world are still forcing a base perl version of 5.005_03 or 5.6.1 for development. Still. My weekend project is to demonstrate that you are an optimist.

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Nicholas Clark
At the risk of re-enforcing my apparent optimism. On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: that the next best one to exploit is ¤ (euro; unicode=20AC; utf8=E282AC), and the next best is Woah. You've just demonstrated why Euro is far worse than any of the other Unicode

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Aaron Crane
Kaoru Maeda writes: Darren Duncan wrote: the next best is £ Isn't that 0x23 in UK? I imagine that someday all the comment lines cause syntax errors in UK... U+00A3 POUND SIGN is at 0x23 in ISO 646-GB (aka BS 4730), true. Fortunately, that character set is almost never used. I think the

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread John Macdonald
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:35:12AM -0400, Rob Kinyon wrote: On 10/21/05, Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 02:37:09PM +0200, Juerd wrote: Steve Peters skribis 2005-10-21 6:07 (-0500): Older versions of Eclipse are not able to enter these characters.

Re: new sigil

2005-10-22 Thread Darren Duncan
At 3:26 PM +0100 10/22/05, Nicholas Clark wrote: At the risk of re-enforcing my apparent optimism. On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:02:10PM -0700, Darren Duncan wrote: that the next best one to exploit is ¤ (euro; unicode=20AC; utf8=E282AC), and the next best is Woah. You've just demonstrated