not operator operator..

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Wed Apr 5 15:08:18 PDT 2006


Chris Miller wrote:

>> An old feature request was that D should allow Unicode operators,
>> as an *alternative* to the ASCII operators. But it didn't catch on ?
> 
> Not everyone supports unicode very well. What happens when I try 
> looking  at your source code and I see funny boxes or question marks.. 
> it'd be fine  in string literals, but if it's part of the program flow, 
> I'd be lost.

I thought D only supported Unicode platforms ?
(it only does for input/output, for instance)

Anyway, where there is use there is abuse I guess...
Maybe it's good that there's no Unicode operators.

I for one (usually) keep my code ASCII and English.
--anders



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