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From:
Luke Palmer
Date:
February 2, 2004 10:45
Subject:
Re: Semantics of vector operations
Message ID:
20040202184417.GA13768@babylonia.flatirons.org
Alex Burr writes:
> --- Andy Wardley <abw@andywardley.com> wrote:
> 
> > Adding unicode operators to Perl will just reinforce
> > its reputation as
> > a "line noise" language.
> 
> Perl6, the language with *real* runes.
> 
> Come to think of it, some of the ogham runes would
> look more incharacter as a 'distribute' operator than
> guillemets... :-)
> 
> More seriously, what about things live 'combining
> characters', eg U20D0 (vector indication); 
> U0307 (derivative)?

Those are fair game for modules, but they won't be in the core because
they're not in latin-1. 

Luke
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