And while we're at it, why "func", instead of the far simpler λ, or "type" instead of τ, or "include", instead of ι, "const" instead of κ and "war" instead of ω. We can do ρ instead of "range", φ instead of "for", ν is "new" and μ is "make", obviously. And while we're at it, let's also use ≥ and ≤ and ≠. No * and /, just • and ÷. ¬, ∨, ∧ of course for booleans. ← and → for channel ops and short variable declaration with ≔.
The answer is, that most people don't know how to enter any of these and the ones that do don't want to be bothered having to change their keyboard-mapping or hammering there num-block for every (or, really, any) line of code :) On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 1:34 AM Wojciech S. Czarnecki <o...@fairbe.org> wrote: > I can not understand why, way in the XXIst century, in a language that from > the beginning supports for unicode identifiers we are at ascii charset > overloading bikeshed. Why type `type` or (in other proposal $, or <> or [] > or > whatever<128) if I might press Super-T and get ʧ. Or press Super-G and get > ʭ. > > I hear that only gurus will write generic code. Might it be, but thousands > of > rookies should be able to read this generic code before they make their > first > commit. > > Gurus will know how to map their keyboards. Rookies on their (win) machines > have circa 1000 glyphs in basic system fonts. (On any linux distro have > over > 3000). > > Why on earth keep on ascii? > > IPA: ʅ ʧ ʭ (0x285, 0x2a7, 0x2ad) > Latin-E: « » ¦ > Latin-A: Ħ ŧ Ŧ Ɏ > Latin-B: ǁ ǂ > > -- > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
