Apologies, that should be spelled "intriguing". --B.
On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 12:41 PM William Michels <w...@caa.columbia.edu> wrote: > WATs are everywhere, and (I'm not trying to pick on one language > here), I find this SO question to be intruiging: > > https://stackoverflow.com/q/58340585/7270649 > > Joseph (and Ralph): thanks for starting off this conversation! > Fernando and Vadim: amazed at your code! > Andy: good questions always welcome! > > Daniel: Thank you for your confirmation on EVAL. Also, I tried parsing > the ATOM SYMBOL character to look at classification, and this is the > best I could do (in the Raku REPL): > > > say "⚛".uniprop > So > > dd "⚛".comb>>.uniprop > ("So",) > Nil > > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}" > ⚛ > > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}".uniprop > So > > say "{uniparse 'ATOM SYMBOL'}".uniprop('Alphabetic') > False > > HTH, Bill. > > PS. Cannot sent this email in 'plain text' mode as ATOM SYMBOL disappears. > > > On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:28 AM Daniel Sockwell <dan...@codesections.com> > wrote: > >> > Oh, and WAT is [short for] "Weird/will Ass Thing"? >> >> No, it's not an abbreviation for anything – it's the word "what", but >> pronounced in a way that >> indicates the speaker is surprised/confused. More specifically, it's a >> reference to the WAT talk (a >> really good one, even if it is about a different language) >> https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat >> >> (All of that is pretty much strait from the glossary, by the way) >> https://docs.raku.org/language/glossary#index-entry-WAT >> >> – codesections >> >
