From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2008-11-07T19:34:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:19722] Re: [Feature #715] Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning


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Jan Maurits Faber:

>  For example, something like:=20
>  a>=3Db ? {:a=3D>!b} : nil=20

> Could be displayed as:=20
>   a=E2=89=A5b ? :a =E2=86=92 =C2=ACb : =E2=88=85=20

> I don't know of any language that can do this yet

APL does this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29#Examples

That said, and as much as my idealism supports the above, I=E2=80=99m again=
st
this on practicality basis. First, Ruby strives to be encoding-agnostic,
which means the above should work for any file in any encoding that
covers these symbols. Second, I don=E2=80=99t believe Ruby core code constr=
ucts
(as opposed to strings or even user-created classes and methods) should
be outside of low ASCII; I=E2=80=99d even say that class name =C5=81=C3=B3d=
=C5=BA is not very
portable and usable, and one should use Lodz instead (note that, in
theory at least, =C5=81=C3=B3d=C5=BA is supported in 1.9, provided you use =
the same
encoding for the class definition and the files that use it).

-- Shot
--=20
We're going for 'working' here. 'Clean' is for
people with skills...     -- Flemming Jacobsen

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