On 07/23/2012 09:06 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: >> Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage >> of the full unicode character set. Right now, we're working in ASCII >> and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and >> triple-quotes for multi-line >> strings). Not to mention <=, >=, ==, !=. And in languages other than >> python, things like ->, => (arrows for structure membership), and so on. > REXX predates Unicode, I think, or at least its widespread adoption, > but it has a non-ASCII operator: > > http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html#operators > > But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with > ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you > get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly > generally available keyboards that have those keys. > > ChrisA
Keyboards with 110,000 keys on them; wonderful. And much larger characters on the screen, so that all those can be distinguished. And of course all fonts have to support all those characters. Back to 20 character lines. -- DaveA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list