This is why we need AST-based editors/revision control systems. Then we can leave language spec's good enough alone and allow people to work with whatever representation of language that pleases them (same as we allow people to set their own editor font or tab length).
Alexey ________________________________ From: Eric Jablow <erjab...@gmail.com> To: The Java Posse <javaposse@googlegroups.com> Sent: Tue, March 15, 2011 11:11:19 AM Subject: [The Java Posse] Re: Do scientists agonize over syntax as much as we do? On Mar 14, 4:20 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > 2011/3/14 Alexey Zinger <inline_f...@yahoo.com> > > I certainly agree that a few people in our community have a strange sense of > readability, such as people who think that ":->>" is a fine name for a > method <http://twitter.com/#!/psnively/status/47304518869848065> (here is my > original tweet <http://twitter.com/#!/cbeust/status/47151793817403392>) :-) > I do wish that Java would allow Unicode equivalents for certain operators. In a UTF-8 source code file, if (a ≤ b) seems preferable to if (a <= b). > -- > Cédric Eric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
