On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:20 PM, João Pinheiro <swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote:
> > > On 20 Jun 2016, at 22:44, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > I'm a little concerned about cases like these: > > > > 1D6CE ; 0076 ; MA # ( 𝛎 → v ) MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL NU → > LATIN SMALL LETTER V # →ν→ > > 1D6D2 ; 0070 ; MA # ( 𝛒 → p ) MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL RHO → > LATIN SMALL LETTER P # →ρ→ > > > > etc. Now, one could reasonably argue that using “𝛎” and “v” to mean > > different things in the same scope would be bad, but I'm not sure > > we really want to accept them as aliases of one another, either. > > Indeed, it would be unwise to pick "𝛎" and "v" for different things > within the same scope. Unicode confusables are annoying and unfortunate, > but not totally unexpected. Automatic aliases for similar characters would > arguably be worse since it would probably qualify as unexpected behaviour > for most people. > I'm not entirely sure about automatic aliasing either. But I will boldly claim that "most people" who choose v and nu for distinct variables don't walk into that situation with expectations of sanity. > > João Pinheiro > _______________________________________________ > swift-evolution mailing list > swift-evolution@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution >
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