On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 03:05:12PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> Have you considered allowing Unicode characters as alternatives to some of
> the less pleasant looking bits? $foo<<1>> (where << and >> are the double
> angle characters) as an alternative to $foo\Q[1] if the user's got the
> characters handy?
I superficially like this idea, but then when the file gets passed to a
user who doesn't have the relevant Unicode support you get
$foo<garbage><garbage>1<garbage><garbage>, which isn't fun to support any
more.
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