Adding Unicode operators to D

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Fri Oct 24 10:04:20 PDT 2008


On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:52:03 +0200, Bruno Medeiros  
<brunodomedeiros+spam at com.gmail> wrote:

> Simen Kjaeraas wrote:
>>  As an example, while I'd enjoy seeing code like this, I'm not sure I'd  
>> enjoy writing it (Note that I am prone to exaggerations):
>>  int a = ∅; //empty set, same as "= void"
>> int[] b = [1,2,3,4,5,6];
>> a = readInt();
>
>
> Hum, interesting example, it actually made me realize that 'null' would  
> be an ideal candidate for having a Unicode symbol of it's own. Does  
> anyone have suggestions for a possible one? Preferably somewhat  
> circle-shaped.
>
>

Well, we norwegians got the Ø (html entity &Oslash;, Latin-1 character  
216) - looks a lot like the empty set symbol.

-- 
Simen


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