[Rod == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 11:10:34 -0500]
Jared> I haven't yet seen an example presented where using a Unicode
Jared> operator would save keystrokes, for instance.
Rod> That depends entirely on how you plan to generate them. If you
Rod> are relying on a special command in your
Jared Rhine wrote:
I haven't yet seen an example presented where using a Unicode
operator would save keystrokes, for instance.
That depends entirely on how you plan to generate them. If you are
relying on a special command in your editor of choice, yes, the ASCII
equiv is fewer keystrokes. If, ho
[Pedro == [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sun, 13 Jun 2004 03:40:27 +0200]
Pedro> What advantages have to use characters not in standard
Pedro> keyboards?
Flexibility.
Stylistic choice.
There is More Than One Way To Do It.
Power.
Expressiveness.
Everything that makes Perl good.
Pedro> Isn't it a little sc
On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 03:40:27AM +0200, Pedro Larroy wrote:
> What advantages have to use characters not in standard keyboards? Isn't
> it a little scary?
Well, what do you consider a 'standard' keyboard? The zip
operator/Yen sign probably appears on most keyboards in Japan, but on
very few i
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 03:33:34PM +, Smylers wrote:
> Gabriel Ebner writes:
>
> > Joe Gottman wrote:
> >
> > >The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
> >
> > How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
>
> Probably the same way as those with US keyboards do -- US keybo
Tim Bunce skribis 2004-06-08 11:30 (+0100):
> I can recommend PuTTY for windows. Secure, small[1], fast, featureful
> and free: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> [1] So small it easily fits on a floppy. I keep a copy on my USB memory drive.
So small that even on modem lines, you
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 11:30:51AM +0100, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > But when I'm using a
> > terminal session, I have found that the only practical way of getting
> > consistent behaviou
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 10:52:32PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
>
> My console can be any of several platforms - in the last couple of weeks
> it has been a Linux box, a Windows PC, a Mac, a Sun workstation, and a
> real vt320 attached to a Sun. My mail sits on a hosted Linux box. To
> read i
Mark J. Reed wrote:
On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote:
This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your email program
On 2004-06-07 at 21:33:03, David Cantrell wrote:
> This is what is so wrong about allowing unicode operators - yes, I don't
> need to write them, but if some other programmer writes one I have to be
> able to read it. And I can't.
Well, for one thing, just because your email program doesn't let
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 04:21:14PM -0400, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> Since you've added ? and ? to the list above, I'll add them as well:
What's so hard to type about the question mark? And what's so
significant that you added it twice?
OK, so I know that you really meant to type and
.
This is wha
On 2004-06-01 at 14:10:08, Paul Seamons wrote:
> Or for the few Perl emacs people out there:
>
> C-x 8 Y
> C-x 8 <
> C-x 8 >
I suspect there are more than a "few". I don't think there's anything
constitutional about folks who like Emacs that prevents them from liking
Perl or vice-versa. Even t
Or for the few Perl emacs people out there:
C-x 8 Y
C-x 8 <
C-x 8 >
Paul
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 10:27 am, Gabriel Ebner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Aaron Sherman wrote:
> > Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it.
>
> Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart.
>
> > Second, you're no
Hello,
Aaron Sherman wrote:
> Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it.
Sorry, mistakenly picked an US-International chart.
> Second, you're not supposed to.
So why has it been chosen then?
> Â is a shorthand for "zip",
Good to know.
> and if you don't want to use the funky one-char
Hello,
Mark J. Reed wrote:
> I assume you mean "with" a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have Â.
Oops, must have mistakenly picked an US-International chart, sorry.
Gabriel.
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On Sat, 2004-05-29 at 19:04, Gabriel Ebner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Joe Gottman wrote:
> >The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
>
> How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Well, first off my US keyboard doesn't contain it. Second, you're not
supposed to. ¥ is a shorthand fo
> >>How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
I assume you mean "with" a US keyboard? US keyboards don't have ¥.
You can use " zip " if you want ASCII. Otherwise, it depends. But Yen is
Unicode codepoint U+00A5 = 165 decimal, so you can type it in Windows as ALT +
numpad 0165
Smylers wrote:
Gabriel Ebner writes:
Joe Gottman wrote:
The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
On Windows you can probably press Alt Gr then type in some number.
Close. AltGr-Minus. If you're using the US-Interna
Gabriel Ebner writes:
> Joe Gottman wrote:
>
> >The zip operator is now the Yen sign (¥).
>
> How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Probably the same way as those with US keyboards do -- US keyboards
don't have a yen symbol on them either.
In 'Vim' I got lucky in guess
It probably depends on what nationality that keyboard is for. If its
Japanese, you probably won't have a problem ;-).
But for the rest of us, use Vi and Ye (or zip).
Dave.
"Gabriel Ebner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> Joe Gottman wrote:
> >The zip o
Hello,
Joe Gottman wrote:
>The zip operator is now the Yen sign (Â).
How are those without a US keyboard supposed to type this?
Gabriel.
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> -Original Message-
> From: Mark Lentczner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2004 7:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Periodic Table of the Operators
>
> Not to beat a dead horse, but
>
> I've updated the Periodic table with almost all the changes that p
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