On 21 Sep 2009, at 11:43 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:49:03AM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
>> I don't think so.   For example, I like the idea
>> of using codepoints with buckybits as the names
>> of keyboard events.
>
> Isn't that a fairly gratuitous example of an ad-hoc storage
> optimization for a very specific application, and therefore
> not much of an argument for putting something into "thing-1"?
> (Where do you put the bucky-bits when the input is EBCDIC?
> What's the codepoint for "F11"?)


I much prefer representing key events as a list of characters (for
actual character events) and symbols (for function keys). 'f11 is then
the 'codepoint' for F11 :-)

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