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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Henriksen [mailto:malichus@mac.com]
> Austin Hastings wrote:
>
> > OTOH, Robin's concern for how to code when you're stuck with 7 bit
> > ascii on the boot console of a Sun box remains valid, and *I* sure
> > would rather have a short name available in a standard way.
>
> Perhaps a solution is a cultural one, that it simply be a point of good
> style for library authors to provide ASCII alternatives in the form of
> multimethods. Then, at least, the alternative name will be pertinent to
> the module.
Agreed. And since the first such situation that P6 learners will encounter
is the built-in « and » operators, or the equally built-in « » quoting
delimiters, we get to be first, providing-a-good-ascii-alternative-wise.
From http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0080.pdf, we have:
00AB « LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
= LEFT POINTING GUILLEMET
00BB » RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
= RIGHT POINTING GUILLEMET
While quite descriptive, none of those really flows from the tongue.
I believe that we SHOULD accept either of those terms, with or without
hyphens, but not require them for ascii work. I'd much rather see E'<<' and
E'>>' as valid aliases. (Yes, this implies a change to POD, too. But it's a
good change.)
=Austin
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