Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0
Steven Schveighoffer
schveiguy at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 18:56:15 UTC 2018
On 9/24/18 2:20 PM, Martin Tschierschke wrote:
> 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...
>>
> You might get really funny error messages.
>
> 🙂 can't be casted to int.
Haha, it could be cynical as well
int can’t be casted to int🤔
Oh, the games we could play.
-Steve
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