On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 18:59 David Sweeris <daveswee...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 30, 2017, at 16:13, Xiaodi Wu via swift-evolution < > swift-evolution@swift.org> wrote: > > I’m happy to participate in the reshaping of the proposal. It would be > nice to gather a group of people again to help drive it forward. > > That said, it’s unclear to me that superscript T is clearly an operator, > any more than would be superscript H (Hermitian), superscript 2, > superscript 3, etc. But at any rate, this would be discussion for the > future workgroup. > > > Superscript T’s only regular use that I’m aware of is as the transpose > operator for vectors and matrices. I’m certainly not omniscient, though. > You don’t need to be omniscient: superscript T is part of the Unicode Phonetic Extensions block—i.e., its existence is justified by use in some phonetic spelling. > Are we going to attempt to distinguish between characters like these two? > ⁿ (SUPERSCRIPT LATIN SMALL LETTER N Unicode: U+207F, UTF-8: E2 81 BF) > n (LATIN SMALL LETTER N Unicode: U+006E, UTF-8: 6E), with a superscript > format applied > > - Dave Sweerisn > >
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