On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote: : To be honest, as easy as it is to type ^a^v<< or ^k<<,[1] it's still
Thanks, I didn't know it was that «easy» in vim. :-) : typing an awful lot just to get a character. Surely the Perl operator : Huffman encoding should take into account the length of time it takes to : type the darn thing. Sure, but that's only one half of Huffman. You also have to consider the frequency of use. (And as a second order effect, whether you want to discourage frequent use. :-) I personally think vector ops are pretty "special", and should remain so. I have enough familiarity with (read: "contempt for") APL that I don't want multi-dimensional operators to be the default, regardless of how they're spelled. Special ops should look special. : Personally, I'm against non US-ascii chars being part of the core : language. It's fine if people want their Unicode identifiers, or import : modules to change operators, but I'd like to think I can at least read : and write my own code in non-Latin-1 environments. Perl 6 is written in Unicode. This will cause more pain in the short term, but I'm trying to optimize for twenty years from now. (Yes, this message is in Latin-1, but that can be considered an encoding of the first 256 codepoints of Unicode.) Larry
