> On 9 Feb 2015, at 19:17, Ken Whistler <kenwhist...@att.net> wrote: ... > The use in C of "=" and "==" was badly designed > from the start, and is the source of bezillions of inadvertent programming > errors in practice.
It is the ample oversupply of implicit conversions in combination with the lack of a proper boolean type that is causing those programming errors. > But if a left arrow, for example, might be a better choice for an assignment > operator in a programming language, and a two-character ASCII operator > like ":=" or "<-" doesn't seem appropriate or causes other confusion, there > still isn't a character *encoding* issue here. Just use "←", which already > exists (U+2190), > and is a fine left arrow! There are also ≔ COLON EQUALS U+2254 and others. No problems using such characters in Flex: The problem is the lack of input methods. _______________________________________________ Unicode mailing list Unicode@unicode.org http://unicode.org/mailman/listinfo/unicode
