Adding Unicode operators to D [use cases]

Benji Smith dlanguage at benjismith.net
Tue Oct 28 17:35:11 PDT 2008


Sergey Gromov wrote:
> Don wrote:
>> If you could completely ignore keyboard and display issues, and use any
>> unicode character as an operator, which ones would you actually use?
> 
> I'd use dot "⋅" and cross "×" products for 3D, union "∪" and
> intersection "∩", subset "⊂" and superset "⊃" and their negative forms.
>  I don't think I'd use anything else.
> 
> Well, comparisons look better when converted into appropriate unicode.

I have pretty much the same list.

For me the really compelling case for unicode characters isn't in 
finding more operators. It's the brackets!!

--benji


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