On 04/11/02 12:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <aka Larry Wall> wrote: > > If you want "trigraph" support, you'll have to put > > > > use encoding 'ugly-american'; > > > > at the top of your files. ;-) ;-) ;-) > > > > Otherwise, it'll be one-character ?fancyops? all the way. > > Mmm, I view one-character Unicode operators as more of an escape hatch > for the future, not as something to be made mandatory. But then, > I'm one of those ugly Americans. > > Of course, I also think I'm allowed to be a little inconsistent in > forcing things like »op« on people. After all, there's gotta be > some advantage to being the Fearless Leader...
On one hand I really respect your fearlessness to go where no language author has gone before. No matter what happens, I pretty sure you'll be "remembered" for it. ;) On the other hand I'm wondering what happens to the ebcdic platforms and the like. Will it even work to have core modules written in non ascii and expect them to translate to ebcdic? I suppose you'll have to convert them to trigraphs as part of the installation. Just wondering if you've thought through the support issues for platforms that by their definition won't be using utf ever. FWIW, ebcdic *does* have the cent sign! Cheers, Brian
