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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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— Gordon


  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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