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From: Alain Frisch <alain@frisch.fr>
To: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible?
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <481ADD86.3000802@frisch.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org>

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 (⊆) = ...

Shouldn't this desire of using mathematical symbols be addressed at the 
level of your editor / IDE instead?  If the language allowed you to 
define and use alphanumeric infix operators like:

   let (`subseteq`) = ...
   if (x `subseteq` y) then ...

then you could simply inform your editor that it should display 
`subseteq` as ⊆. The tuareg mode already does this kind of 
"symbolification" of some operators like -> (displayed as an arrow) and 
'a (display as a Greek alpha) and it shouldn't be too difficult to 
extend that to user-defined operators.

-- Alain


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-01 19:41 Richard Jones
2008-05-01 21:20 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-05-01 21:36   ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-05-02  7:44     ` Gordon Henriksen
2008-05-02  6:43   ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-02  8:05   ` David Teller
2008-05-02  8:26     ` Richard Jones
2008-05-02  9:23   ` Alain Frisch [this message]
2008-05-02 11:54     ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-05-05  6:36       ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-05-02 14:27     ` Robert Fischer
2008-05-02 17:02       ` Yann Régis-Gianas
2008-05-02 15:11     ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-05-02 15:25       ` Alain Frisch

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