In article <mailman.8483.1395717465.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah: Its 2014 (at least out here)... > > About time we started using unicode in earnest dont you think?? > > We do. > > > Id like to see the following spellings corrected: > > lambda to λ > > in to â > > (preferably with the 'in' predicate and the 'in' in 'for' disambiguated) > > set([]) to ? > > The problems with these is not Unicode or a lack thereof, but keys. I > know how to type "lambda" on any keyboard I reach for; if it's a > full-sized QWERTY variant, I can type it without looking, and if it's > something else then I can peer at the thing and find the appropriate > five letters. (Phone keyboards are notoriously peer-worthy.) How do I > type λ? Do I have to memorize an alt-key sequence? Do I need to keep a > set of "language keywords" in a file somewhere so I can copy and > paste? Does my editor have to provide them? I started programming on 029 keypunches and ASR-33 teletypes. If you asked me to type most of the punctuation we take for granted today (not to mention lower case letters), I would have looked at you as if you had asked me to type something in greek. Hardware evolves. I assume that future generations of programmers will have input devices better suited to unicode than the clumsy keyboards we use today.
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