I agree - if you already allow non-ascii symbols - what’s the difference. It’s
up to the owner of the code base to decide if it works better for them or not.
> On Oct 1, 2025, at 10:24 AM, awaw...@gmail.com <awawfu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for chiming in.
>
> I wonder could you or others elaborate on why allowing math symbols would
> make it harder than present to search for?
> At present, in Go we can already do Japanese hiragana and katagana, not to
> mention emojis, whose search requirements are no different than Math symbols.
> In fact, I use the ancient Vim editor (without any plugins) as I'm old
> fashioned, and Vim doesn't seem to have issues searching for "⊗".
> I suppose the search experience is even better in VSCode or github.
>
> Regarding the concern that:
> > symbols may be meaningful to the author, code consumers find it harder.
> At present, Go supports ℏ (reduced Planck constant) and Δp (momentum
> deviation), which arguably is meaningful not only to authors but also code
> consumers.
> ⊗ may seem foreign to most Physics undergraduates, but its meaning is no
> doubt *universal* among quantum technology practitioners.
> I appreciate if anyone could provide an example or scenario on code consumers
> of a quantum related Go package finding it hard to read σX as the Pauli X
> matrix or ⊗ as the tensor product.
> In other words, within a specific domain, judiciously chosen special symbols
> actually help code readability.
>
> Sorry if I may sound a bit absurd or combative (I'm sincerely not), but I am
> just believing that laying out concrete details and examples helps make
> decisions whether pro or con.
>
> On Wednesday, October 1, 2025 at 3:53:54 PM UTC+8 Dan Kortschak wrote:
>> On Wed, 2025-10-01 at 00:42 -0700, awaw...@gmail.com <> wrote:
>> > func ⊗(ops *tensor.Dense) *tensor.Dense {...}
>>
>> Please no. Including these make the code much harder to work in as it
>> is harder to search for and while the symbols may be meaningful to the
>> author, code consumers find it harder. If you need maths symbols, put
>> them in the godoc.
>>
>
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