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abw@andywardley.com (Andy Wardley) writes: > Sure, make Perl Unicode compliant, right down to variable and operator > names. But don't make people spend an afternoon messing around with mutt, > vim, emacs and all the other tools they use, just so that they can read, > write, email and print Perl programs correctly. To be honest, I don't think that'll be a problem, but only because by the time Perl 6 is widely deployed, people will have got themselves sorted out as far as Unicode's concerned. I suspect similar things were said when C decided to use 7 bit characters. That doesn't mean I think Unicode operators are a good idea, of course. -- "When in doubt, print 'em out." -- Karl's Programming Proverb 0x7Thread Previous | Thread Next