[Rod == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:10:34 -0500]
Jared I haven't yet seen an example presented where using a Unicode
Jared operator would save keystrokes, for instance.
Rod That depends entirely on how you plan to generate them. If you
Rod are relying on a special command in your
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:40:27AM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote:
What advantages have to use characters not in standard keyboards? Isn't
it a little scary?
Well, what do you consider a 'standard' keyboard? The zip
operator/Yen sign probably appears on most keyboards in Japan, but on
very few in
[Pedro == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:40:27 +0200]
Pedro What advantages have to use characters not in standard
Pedro keyboards?
Flexibility.
Stylistic choice.
There is More Than One Way To Do It.
Power.
Expressiveness.
Everything that makes Perl good.
Pedro Isn't it a little
Jared Rhine wrote:
I haven't yet seen an example presented where using a Unicode
operator would save keystrokes, for instance.
That depends entirely on how you plan to generate them. If you are
relying on a special command in your editor of choice, yes, the ASCII
equiv is fewer keystrokes. If,
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 03:33:34PM +, Smylers wrote:
Gabriel Ebner writes:
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Probably the same way as those with US keyboards do -- US keyboards
don't
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
My console can be any of several platforms - in the last couple of weeks
it has been a Linux box, a Windows PC, a Mac, a Sun workstation, and a
real vt320 attached to a Sun. My mail sits on a hosted Linux box. To
read it, I
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
But when I'm using a
terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of getting
consistent behaviour
Tim Bunce skribis 2004-06-08 11:30 (+0100):
I can recommend PuTTY for windows. Secure, small[1], fast, featureful
and free: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
[1] So small it easily fits on a floppy. I keep a copy on my USB memory drive.
So small that even on modem lines, you
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:21:14PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Since you've added ? and ? to the list above, I'll add them as well:
What's so hard to type about the question mark? And what's so
significant that you added it twice?
OK, so I know that you really meant to type some bizarre
On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote:
This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your email program doesn't let
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote:
This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your email program
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
I assume you mean with a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have ¥.
You can use zip if you want ASCII. Otherwise, it depends. But Yen is
Unicode codepoint U+00A5 = 165 decimal, so you can type it in Windows as ALT +
numpad 0165 even
On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 19:04, Gabriel Ebner wrote:
Hello,
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it. Second, you're not
supposed to. ¥ is a shorthand for zip,
Hello,
Mark J. Reed wrote:
I assume you mean with a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have .
Oops, must have mistakenly picked an US-International chart, sorry.
Gabriel.
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Gabriel Ebner - reverse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
Aaron Sherman wrote:
Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it.
Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart.
Second, you're not supposed to.
So why has it been chosen then?
is a shorthand for zip,
Good to know.
and if you don't want to use the funky one-character
Or for the few Perl emacs people out there:
C-x 8 Y
C-x 8
C-x 8
Paul
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:27 am, Gabriel Ebner wrote:
Hello,
Aaron Sherman wrote:
Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it.
Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart.
Second, you're not supposed
On 2004-06-01 at 14:10:08, Paul Seamons wrote:
Or for the few Perl emacs people out there:
C-x 8 Y
C-x 8
C-x 8
I suspect there are more than a few. I don't think there's anything
constitutional about folks who like Emacs that prevents them from liking
Perl or vice-versa. Even though
Hello,
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign ().
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Gabriel.
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Gabriel Ebner - reverse [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It probably depends on what nationality that keyboard is for. If its
Japanese, you probably won't have a problem ;-).
But for the rest of us, use Vi and ctrl-KYe (or spacezipspace).
Dave.
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Hello,
Joe Gottman wrote:
Gabriel Ebner writes:
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Probably the same way as those with US keyboards do -- US keyboards
don't have a yen symbol on them either.
In 'Vim' I got lucky in guessing
Smylers wrote:
Gabriel Ebner writes:
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
On Windows you can probably press Alt Gr then type in some number.
Close. AltGr-Minus. If you're using the
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From: Mark Lentczner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 7:18 PM
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Subject: Re: Periodic Table of the Operators
Not to beat a dead horse, but
I've updated the Periodic table with almost all the changes that people
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