From: Robert Fischer <Robert@FischerVenture.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible?
Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 09:27:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <481B24DB.5030709@FischerVenture.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481ADD86.3000802@frisch.fr>
Yeah, I vote against having to type Alt+number to edit someone else's
code. I'd rather that we start allowing LaTeX symbols in our source
before we actually have the Unicode symbols themselves in there.
Oh, and +1 for actually supporting Unicode in String processing.
~~ Robert.
Alain Frisch wrote:
> 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
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 14:27 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
2008-05-02 11:54 ` Daniel Bünzli
2008-05-05 6:36 ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-05-02 14:27 ` Robert Fischer [this message]
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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