From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.3 X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail4-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.105]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4E6BBC1 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:48:33 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAMZVGkjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACsTQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,424,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="25751155" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 08:48:33 +0200 Received: from mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr (mail3-relais-sop.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.104]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m426mRqs001790 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 08:48:33 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEAMZVGkjUVZsV/2dsb2JhbACsTQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,424,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12178348" Received: from cerberus.snarc.org ([212.85.155.21]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 08:48:30 +0200 Received: by cerberus.snarc.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9DB2D129DC; Fri, 2 May 2008 07:43:16 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 07:43:16 +0100 From: Vincent Hanquez To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? Message-ID: <20080502064316.GA18189@snarc.org> References: <20080501194149.GA30095@annexia.org> <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> X-Warning: Email may contain unsmilyfied humor and/or satire. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 481AB93B.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0100,:01 ocaml:01 'u':01 unproductive:98 wrote:01 caml-list:01 let:03 let:03 character:04 thu:05 converting:05 table:93 discussion:06 vincent:07 vincent:07 On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:20:23PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > In fact can we open the discussion about converting OCaml source files > into UTF-8 and allow _lots_ more symbols? eg: > > let (∪) = ... > let (⊆) = ... on one hand, it probably would be nice to have such a massive extend of symbols.. on the other hand, it could be quite unproductive for writing/reading code since there's so much symbols, and that some looks like others; for example 'u' and '∪', '‧' and '.', '‶' and '"' etc.. plus, i don't really want to have my character table open when i want to edit a program ... -- Vincent