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From: Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: about some potentially interesting unicode operators
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:46:55 -0700
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Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> writes:
> I personally hate all operators.  That said, i agree with the general idea 
> that Unicode has a lot of symbols out of ASCII that are underutilized.  C 
> has limitations on what symbols are permitted in identifiers, but in 
> previous projects of mine, i was able to work within that prison and used 
> the · character for a sort of psuedonamespacing.  (I later abandoned this 
> practice for other reasons.)

A problem with using non-ASCII Unicode characters as operator
names is that they can be difficult to type -- and the way you type
them is inconsistent across systems.

There's nothing wrong with using identifiers as operator names.
C already does this with "sizeof" et al.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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