Re: [Readable-discuss] Unicode matching brackets as alternatives to {...} for languages such as Clojure

2014-10-29 Thread David A. Wheeler
I claimed: > > «x + 1» : Left/right-pointing double-angle quotation mark, > > U+AB/U+BB. These are very well-supported (e.g., they are used for > > French quotations and are in Latin-1), and in many cases are the easiest > > to enter. However, do they too similar to the comparison operators < > >

Re: [Readable-discuss] Unicode matching brackets as alternatives to {...} for languages such as Clojure

2014-10-29 Thread John Cowan
David A. Wheeler scripsit: > «x + 1» : Left/right-pointing double-angle quotation mark, > U+AB/U+BB. These are very well-supported (e.g., they are used for > French quotations and are in Latin-1), and in many cases are the easiest > to enter. However, do they too similar to the comparison operato

[Readable-discuss] Clojure supports UTF-8 (thus, easy Unicode support)

2014-10-29 Thread David A. Wheeler
It appears that Clojure normally loads source files assuming they are UTF-8, which makes supporting Unicode much easier. This suggests that using a non-ASCII character might not be too hard for them to support. Source file src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java routine "loadFile" has this Java line