Le 08/02/15 23:07, Alfred Zett a écrit :
Hi Jean-Francois Colson,
- A codepoint for string literal quotes, that would spare one the
escaping.
I rarely escape quotes.
In a text, I use ’ (U+2019) as an apostrophe and «»“”‘’ as quotes, so
I don’t need to escape them.
When I use PHP to generate some HTML code, I try to alternate simple
and double quotes as much as possible. That way I rarely need to
escape them.
OK, but that's just your scenario. With a language design from the
past. With probably an editor from the past that allows non-unicode
encodings.
?????
That’s mainly with gcc on GNU/Linux with a UTF-8 locale or with PHP with
a <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
in the XHTML document.
In a better world, manual code point inserting was a last resort.
What do you call “manual inserting”?
Imagine someone wants to make his text look like written with a
typewriter.
That’s a very special case and a few \ are not a big problem.
You could use existing characters as “string litteral quotes”. I’ve
never used APL so I don’t remember the meanings of its symbols, but
couldn’t ⍘ U+2358 APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUOTE UNDERBAR or ⍞ U+235E APL
FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUOTE QUAD work as “string litteral quotes” in a new
programming language?
Aren’t you trying to reinvent APL?
No. APL places a lot of alien-looking, annoying characters to anyone
except mathematicians into your code that are hard to input.
Hard to input? Not harder than the new symbols you’d like to propose.
That’s only a matter of keyboard layout and input method.
In particular from the context.
My proposal on the other hand - if implemented right - introduces some
really intuitive looking and easy to input characters,
In what would they be easier to input?
because a bold arrow at the left doesn't need further explanation and
your IDE of the future can easily place them when pressing tab in the
right position.
If the IDE inputs your new character when you press tab, then your new
character is a tab…
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