On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 04:02, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote: > * Dyck, David ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [31 Oct 2002 19:21]: > > [...] > > You could use the Character Map accessory to put > > the character into the clipboard, or > > press the alt and hold the alt key while typing 0171 (or 0187) > > < alt+0171 > > > alt+0187 > > To be honest, as easy as it is to type ^a^v<< or ^k<<,[1] it's still > 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. > > 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.
I agree considering, this isn't APL and the problems people have had mailing examples (let alone creating them!). I've got to admit all of these operators are scaring me. Seems alot like Brooks' second-system effect. Brian Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
