On 2016-04-12 6:59 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Brock Wilcox <awwa...@thelackthereof.org> wrote: Heart doesn't work for me, but other symbols seem fine. I don't know why. I also didn't need to quote them. Here is a REPL session from a Rakudo 2016.01.1:> sub Δ($x) { say "got $x" } Δ is a perfectly valid letter in the Greek alphabet. Unicode doesn't care that you prefer to think of it as a symbol.
On the other hand, Unicode has a lot of actual Mathematical Symbols for stuff like this, so you don't have to use what it considers Greek letters when you mean symbols.
For example, ∆ is U+2206 named INCREMENT. Is that not better, or is an actual Greek letter desired in the above example? -- Darren Duncan
