On Mar 30, 3:14 pm, Lie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 30, 12:11 pm, hdante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (snip) > > > BTW, my opinion is that it's already time that programmer editors > > have input methods advanced enough for generating this: > > > if x ≠ 0: > > ∀y ∈ s: > > if y ≥ 0: f1(y) > > else: f2(y) > > That would be a nightmare. > > Programming language (or most computer-based texts) should only use > basic ASCII characters, except if it can't be helped since typing non-
I completely disagree. Unicode should be used whenever the architecture doesn't have memory restrictions. For general (plain-)text there's no sense in talking about ASCII. The only language that "fits" in it that I can remember is Latin. > ASCII characters is still unreliable. It'd also be a headache to > memorize what keyboard combinations to use to type a character. Not to You'd have to memorize, for example "!=" and ">=". > mention how much more complex would the keyboard design be. Also not The keyboard would be the same. > mentioning how much more complex the language design would be to > handle all those non-ASCII characters. Wrong. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
