On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allb...@ece.cmu.edu> wrote: > On Jan 13, 2010, at 14:25 , Andrew Coppin wrote: >> (And even if that's not the case, I've yet to find a way to type in the >> Unicode characters which are hypothetically possible.) > > That's a problem with your editor/development environment.
It's not just one's editor (I use emacs, and it's actually not that hard to type a decent subset of interesting Unicode characters in emacs with the tex input mode), but readability. The ASCII characters are universal and easily recognized (assuming you have a decent monochrome font); having to notice potentially significant differences involving diacritics alone (not to mention all the various mathematical symbols) in identifiers would drive me mad. It's the same reason we try to limit lines of code to ~80 characters — our editors are *capable* of more, sure, but are we? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
