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 mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail1-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.82]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27951BBC1 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 10:26:25 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEALtsGkjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACsNg X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,425,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="11750287" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail1-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 10:26:25 +0200 Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by discorde.inria.fr (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m428QO2U004286 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 10:26:24 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ag0CAH9sGkhQRFuwiGdsb2JhbACRXwEBAQ8gmiU X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,425,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="10312509" Received: from unknown (HELO furbychan.cocan.org) ([80.68.91.176]) by mail2-smtp-roc.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 10:26:24 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Jrqak-0004v0-Ih; Fri, 02 May 2008 09:26:06 +0100 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 09:26:06 +0100 To: David Teller Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? Message-ID: <20080502082606.GV20312@annexia.org> References: <20080501194149.GA30095@annexia.org> <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> <1209715505.6345.1.camel@Blefuscu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1209715505.6345.1.camel@Blefuscu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 481AD030.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; 0200,:01 wikipedia:01 wikipedia:01 wiki:01 subset:01 wiki:01 ocaml:01 camomile:01 0.6:98 sourceforge:01 wrote:01 defines:01 caml-list:01 fri:05 problem:05 On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 10:05:05AM +0200, David Teller wrote: > Actually, I remember Xavier Leroy saying that there was no problem, as > soon as we were able to decide exactly what's a symbol, what's a letter, Luckily Unicode defines such classes already. There's a very high level overview in this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters We'd probably want to concentrate on a subset of the mathematical operators first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_Mathematical_Operators There's even support for this in OCaml already: http://camomile.sourceforge.net/dochtml-0.6/UCharInfo.html Rich. -- Richard Jones Red Hat