> -----Original Message----- > From: Gordon Henriksen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Austin Hastings wrote: > > > OTOH, Robin's concern for how to code when you're stuck with 7 bit > > ascii on the boot console of a Sun box remains valid, and *I* sure > > would rather have a short name available in a standard way. > > Perhaps a solution is a cultural one, that it simply be a point of good > style for library authors to provide ASCII alternatives in the form of > multimethods. Then, at least, the alternative name will be pertinent to > the module.
Agreed. And since the first such situation that P6 learners will encounter is the built-in « and » operators, or the equally built-in « » quoting delimiters, we get to be first, providing-a-good-ascii-alternative-wise. >From http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf, we have: 00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK = LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET 00BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK = RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET While quite descriptive, none of those really flows from the tongue. I believe that we SHOULD accept either of those terms, with or without hyphens, but not require them for ascii work. I'd much rather see E'<<' and E'>>' as valid aliases. (Yes, this implies a change to POD, too. But it's a good change.) =Austin
