> Speaking of which, the advantage of, say, « over << is that the former > is _one_ character. But Y, compared to ¥, is one character only as > well, and is even more visually distinctive with most fonts I know of, > afaict, so is there any good reason to keep the latter as the > "official" one?!?
I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I prefer ¥ because I don't like infix operators that look like identifiers. It's idiosyncratic, admittedly, but I dislike Pascal's "mod" and Perl5's "x" for the same reason. Even with the ability to use Unicode names, ¥ can't be an identifier, because it's not a letter, it's a currency symbol. Now that we've opened up the Pandora's box of Unicode, we have lots more letters, but also lots more non-letters, and I'd rather see the latter used for operators. Just my 2¢. :)
