From: Gordon Henriksen <gordonhenriksen@mac.com>
To: "Hezekiah M. Carty" <hcarty@atmos.umd.edu>
Cc: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 03:44:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60141D5C-FBE2-4D5B-98F8-407EBDEB7517@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a360f590805011436g3a26245coafad923d648bce24@mail.gmail.com>
Maybe Unicode support in the standard library should come before
Unicode identifiers in the sources.
On 2008-05-01, at 17:36, Hezekiah M. Carty wrote:
> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
> wrote:
>> On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:41:49PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
>>> let ( /\ ) (a1, a2) (b1, b2) = a2 > b1 || b2 > a1
>>
>> I've just reread the Lexical conventions section in the manual. For
>> some reason when I read it first I thought it said that '\' was
>> allowed, but in fact it's not so this appears to be a bug in camlp4.
>>
>> BUT can we permit this? It's nice to be able to define /\ and \/
>> operators with the obvious meanings :-)
>>
>> In fact can we open the discussion about converting OCaml source
>> files
>> into UTF-8 and allow _lots_ more symbols? eg:
>>
>> let (∪) = ...
>> let (⊆) = ...
>
> Did this come up at the OCaml meeting [1]? I think Xavier Leroy said
> something about updating OCaml to allow UTF-x source files, though I
> have only read the transcripts and don't know the full context or how
> official this is.
>
> Hez
>
> [1] - http://wiki.cocan.org/events/europe/ocamlmeetingparis2008
>
> --
> Hezekiah M. Carty
> Graduate Research Assistant
> University of Maryland
> Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 7:44 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 [this message]
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
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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