> > On Oct 19, 2016, at 12:29 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro via swift-evolution
> > <swift-evolution at swift.org
> > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 6:41 AM, Matthew Johnson via swift-evolution
> > <swift-evolution at swift.org
> > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>
> > <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org
> > <https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-evolution>>> wrote:
> > IMO, the best argument against using unicode symbols for operators defined
> > by mathematics is that they are currently difficult to type.
> >
> > And there is no realistic hope of that changing. This issue is so
> > compelling that C and C++ introduced standardized text-ascii alternatives
> > for the punctuation operators to relieve stress on non-english keyboard
> > users.
>
> Wait, what? They’re only hard to type because people don’t seem to realize
> they can make their own keyboard layouts to use while they’re waiting for the
> USB Consortium to notice that it’s not the '80s anymore and update the class
> driver spec to allow keyboards to directly type unicode characters.
> For macOS, I use Ukelele
> (http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele
> <http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele>). I
> don’t know what tools there are for Windows or Linux, but I’d be *shocked* if
> they didn’t exist.
Not to mention things like the iPad where the keyboard can directly show the
symbols based on context. We already have playgrounds on iOS, and I for one
will be programming on my iPad often once that becomes a possibility.
Also, there are UI things that can be added to Xcode to easily type emoji’s and
other symbols. If I could type ‘``dog`’ or something like that and get the dog
emoji, why shouldn’t I use it? That was, after all, one of the initial
promises of Swift.
Thanks,
Jon
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