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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Richer (than ascii) notation for haskell source?

Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Richer (than ascii) notation for haskell source?
From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH"
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 08:27:52 -0400

On 2008 May 15, at 3:25, Achim Schneider wrote:

"Yitzchak Gale" <gale@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
Come to think of it, if you're after math notation, enough Greek
letters are used as symbols that it might be necessary to just
exclude them from use as letters.

While I have not yet noticed anyone from Greece on this list,
I don't think it would be appropriate for us to discriminate
against Greek speakers as a built-in feature of Haskell.

/me shudders and tries not to remember those occasions when he read code
written in french.


So far I've had to deal with: French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Russian (transliterated), Hebrew (transliterated), Arabic (transliterated). I've also dealt with serious spaghetti code (I'm a Perl programmer in my day job, 'nuff said). I'll take the former, thanks.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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