foo!(bar) ==> foo{bar}

[Alexander Pánek]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> "Frank Benoit" wrote
>> Steven Schveighoffer schrieb:
>>
>>> To be honest, I sort of agree with superdan.  If you are going to be
>>> programming, and your keyboard doesn't let you easily type '{}', it 
>>> sounds
>>> like you just bought the wrong keyboard.  Java, C#, C/C++, D, etc. all 
>>> use
>>> curly braces to denote blocks of code.  I guess Danish and German 
>>> keyboard
>>> developers aren't expecting their people to program in decent programming
>>> languages?
>>>
>>> Kinda shortsighted if you ask me...
>>>
>>> -Steve
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, i guess they thought people want to write danish or german text.
>> Stupid they are :D
> 
> What I meant was, is it not possible to dedicate some keys to type { } *and* 
> allow typing german/danish text?  Is there not a way to have both?  That's 
> all I was saying.  I only ever use curly braces in code,  I almost never use 
> it while typing English text.  Yet there those keys are ;)  It probably was 
> more of a process where those symbols were chosen *because* the keys were 
> easy to find, but still, a "programmer's" german keyboard seems like a 
> distinct possibility.

I’m using a modified US layout, with ä on AltGr+a, ö on AltGr+o, ..., as 
well as typographically correct quotes for English, German and French 
(“”, „”, «»/»«), a proper apostrophe (’), a €-sign on AltGr+e, etc. 
Works pretty well for me. Also, if anyone else is using my computer, I 
just change the layout to the German one and change it back afterwards. 
Not a big thing.