not operator operator..

[Anders F Björklund]

Georg Wrede wrote:

>>>>> Sure there is. ≡ in Unicode (\u2261), or === in plain ASCII.
>>>>> It's just that it was removed from the language in DMD 0.126 ?
>>>>
>>>> If D really _demands_ source code to be in UTF, then there is no
>>>> excuse for avoiding single-character operators like "≡".
>>>
>>> Except that they're not easily acessable on a common/standard
>>> keyboard, right?
>>
>> What? You mean you're *not* using the standard 473-key keyboard? How 
>> strange !?
> 
> If somebody is able to produce "≡", then let him define it. All we need 
> is some suitable syntax.
> 
> define ≡ opMyEqual;     // or something like this
> 
> I admit, this idea is not yet implementable as such: some operators may 
> not be strictly binary, and other such issues. And I'm definitely not 
> talking D 1.0 here. But still.

An old feature request was that D should allow Unicode operators,
as an *alternative* to the ASCII operators. But it didn't catch on ?

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?FeatureRequestList/UnicodeOperators
(Somehow these things are always treated as replacements, not add-ons)

> Such a character would of course only be used in that particular 
> application, and thus probably be developed by a group of people who can 
> tell each other how to produce this character. Or they can copy/paste it 
> (just as I did, without even bothering to search for ways of actually 
> typing it).

I just selected it from the Unicode input helper:
http://www.algonet.se/~afb/d/unicode-palette.png

> I'm not really pursuing this issue as something First Priority, or 
> Essential. It's more like, if we don't accept this, then what's the use 
> of accepting any at all non-USASCII source code (outside of string 
> literals)?

I believe that D in practice is an ASCII language. That's OK with me.

--anders