Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

Martin Tschierschke mt at smartdolphin.de
Mon Sep 24 18:20:53 UTC 2018


On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 14:34:21 UTC, Steven 
Schveighoffer wrote:
> On 9/24/18 10:14 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
>> On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 13:26:14 UTC, Steven 
>> Schveighoffer wrote:
>>> Part of the reason, which I haven't read here yet, is that 
>>> all the keywords are in English.
>> 
>> Eh, those are kinda opaque sequences anyway, since the 
>> meanings aren't quite what the normal dictionary definition is 
>> anyway. Look up "int" in the dictionary... or "void", or even 
>> "string". They are just a handful of magic sequences we learn 
>> with the programming language. (And in languages like Rust, 
>> "fn", lol.)
>
> Well, even on top of that, the standard library is full of 
> English words that read very coherently when used together (if 
> you understand English).
>
> I can't imagine a long chain of English algorithms with some 
> Chinese one pasted in the middle looks very good :) I suppose 
> you could alias them all...
>
> -Steve
You might get really funny error messages.

🙂 can't be casted to int.

:-)

And if you have to increment the number of cars you can write: 
🚗++; This might give really funny looking programs!


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