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 B05F7BBC1 for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:20 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEACd6GkjAXQIm/2dsb2JhbACsIQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,426,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="25755320" Received: from discorde.inria.fr ([192.93.2.38]) by mail4-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 11:23:20 +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 m429NJ4u005910 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:20 +0200 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: As0BAFR6GkhQDPIab2dsb2JhbACRYwEKBwIEBxMDmgo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,426,1204498800"; d="scan'208";a="12182212" Received: from smtp20.orange.fr ([80.12.242.26]) by mail3-smtp-sop.national.inria.fr with ESMTP; 02 May 2008 11:23:19 +0200 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2026.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 259231C000B3; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (APuteaux-154-1-12-105.w83-199.abo.wanadoo.fr [83.199.69.105]) by mwinf2026.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id EA68E1C00081; Fri, 2 May 2008 11:23:18 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20080502092318960.EA68E1C00081@mwinf2026.orange.fr Message-ID: <481ADD86.3000802@frisch.fr> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 11:23:18 +0200 From: Alain Frisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Jones Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? References: <20080501194149.GA30095@annexia.org> <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> In-Reply-To: <20080501212023.GA373@annexia.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Miltered: at discorde with ID 481ADD87.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail . ensmp . fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; frisch:01 frisch:01 ocaml:01 infix:01 tuareg:01 wrote:01 caml-list:01 alain:01 alain:01 define:02 let:03 let:03 converting:05 discussion:06 extend:07 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