On Thursday, May 21, 2020 9:20 AM Joao S. O. Bueno [mailto:jsbu...@python.org.br] wrote > On Thu, 21 May 2020 at 10:06, Thierry Parmentelat > <thierry.parmente...@inria.fr> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 21 May 2020, at 14:48, Joao S. O. Bueno <jsbu...@python.org.br> wrote: > > > > > > (I had a coleague once which did > > > set a special VIM config to display "!=" as > > > "[can't type, math 'different' sign from here]" > > > and even that was mostly a toy than anything > > > really useful. > > > > I guess that is my point exactly: the main reason why this person has been > > unable to make anything useful out of that otherwise > perfectly sound idea is that it is not allowed in the language, so people > need to mess with solutions on the outside sphere - editors, > IDE’s, documentation post-processing - that essentially have no chance to be > sustainable, and/as it causes extra burden for everybody > > > > We should allow code to be natively pretty, and not rely on other tools to > > do the prettifying job - or not > > > And then, suppose you can "solve" this chicken and egg problem > by allowing it on the language. Get 2 or 3 years for people to > catch on the language version that accepts it (how much > code out there using 1_000_000 numric spacing already?) - > then, supposing tools evolve along with it, ok, maybe in 4 years I > can fire-up a "visual studio code" with a setup that allows > me to hold a modifier key and pops-up a floating virtual > keyboard with the unicode operators and type it almost > seamlessly - how would that help me to type code snippets > in e-mails or web-forms???
It wouldn't. No matter how slick of a Unicode operator insertion setup you have, it still is quicker and easier to type ->. I fail to understand how suggesting that all new python programmers use a slower, more complex entry method can be perceived as more "user-friendly". Especially since they have to learn what -> means anyway. Not only that, not all fonts support all Unicode characters. There would need to be a FAQ section in the docs on fonts that work with Python. --Edwin _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YSOY56QYM5V6IDAWJ53VLJEHURKF7EIL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
