Ketil Malde <ketil <at> malde.org> writes: > > You know, this might be the right time to start expanding our > vocabulary beyond seven bits. Since we're likely to keep mappend > around as an alias for some time, people would have a grace period to > adjust. > > How about U+2295 (circle with plus inside it)? > > Or, if we would like to stick to the 8-bit subset to keep those 8859-1 > users happy, how about ยค (funny circle over an x, U+00A4) > > -k
I can work with any symbols as long as they are easily typeable. ++ is 3 easy key press. `mappend` is 9. In both cases I don't need to look on keyboard as I know exactly where they are. However there is no way I can remember where U+00A4 is - probably it is not on all keyboards (reversing " and @ gives me a lot of problems in UK keyboards. FR keyboards was nightmare just because a few keys where at different place). In fact I'd need to open keyboard mapping and search for symbol. A lot of trouble just for single symbol. To summarise - It doesn't matter is symbol is or isn't in ASCII or ISO 8859-1 as long as it can be produced easily. Regards _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe