Short list with things to finish for D2

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:00:25PM -0800, Walter Bright wrote:
> I know it's tempting, but it only leads to madness.

Besides, I think this is something that a lot of people might ask for,
but then once they got it, they wouldn't actually use it.

Imagine getting a library that uses a really cool character as an operator...
just to find that you can't type that character on your keyboard anyway. Or
maybe you can, but it is a big pain, so it isn't worth the effort.

Or getting that cool character in source that you edit in a primitive editor
or font that can't display it, so you just see gibberish.

In theory, those aren't problems. But in practice, I think that would make
the feature very rarely used. There just aren't that many easy to
type / ubiquitous to display symbols that have meaning not already
defined in the language.


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Adam D. Ruppe
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