Melchior FRANZ

 
> * Vivian Meazza -- Sunday 24 April 2005 20:41:
> > Andy Ross wrote
> > >    `A`   @A   $A   %A   &A   @"A"   $"A"   %"A"   &"A"   c"A"
> >
> > Anything but `A` - I'm bound to misread that in the future sometime. I
> > favour a function.
> 
> Hmm ... and I changed my mind and would now find `A` a reasonable choice.
> :-P

You would change your mind - ask 3 programmers and get 4 answers :-).

> ` and ' *are* different characters. They *have* to look different,
> otherwise
> they are pointless. Every Unix shell considers them functionallly
> different.
> Nobody has complained )to me) so far. If a font doesn't show a clear
> difference,
> then it's the font that is broken, not the glyph. And then, with proper
> syntax
> coloring a character and a string constant have different colors.
> 
> Alternatively, take TeX's syntax:  `\A  ... for extra geek points.  ;-)
> 

Nothing wrong with the font - it's the reader that's broken. I suppose you
work on the basis of why make it difficult when with a bit of extra effort
you can make it impossible?

Regards,

Vivian



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