DIP6

[Jeremie Pelletier]

Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:47 AM, Ary Borenszweig <ary at esperanto.org.ar> wrote:
>> Kagamin wrote:
>>> http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?LanguageDevel/DIPs/DIP6
>>>
>>>> Java's syntax has the advantage of having to type less when the
>>>> annotation has no arguments: @annotation vs. [annotation].
>>> In both cases you have a two-keys overhead.
>> No, why?
> 
> Maybe you have a different keyboard layout than Kagamin and me.
> 
> On a US layout --
> @  is Shift+2
> but [ and ] are single keystrokes.
> 
> --bb

Back when I started programming on a french canadian layout, most of 
these symbols were located at crazy places, like ? is shift-6, [], {}, 
<> are all found using right-alt + one of the many keys close to enter, 
which are used for accents, really annoying. Even the backslash is 
located at right-alt + the key left to 1.

And people here wonder why I custom order my laptops and keyboards to 
get native US layouts..

Jeremie