On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > I started programming on 029 keypunches and ASR-33 teletypes. If you asked > me to > type most of the punctuation we take for granted today (not to mention lower > case > letters), I would have looked at you as if you had asked me to type something > in greek. > > Hardware evolves. I assume that future generations of programmers will have > input > devices better suited to unicode than the clumsy keyboards we use today.
And there you have a circular problem. Until the bulk of programmers have access to such keyboards, programming languages shouldn't use such symbols (because most of their users won't be able to type them); and until programming languages make use of those symbols, there's little reason to put them on keyboards. Supporting both may look tempting, but you effectively create two ways of spelling the exact same thing; it'd be like C's trigraphs. Do you know what ??= is, without looking it up? [1] ChrisA [1] I will accept "An obfuscation tool" as a correct answer here. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
