Phoenix.pm: quoting constant hash keys survey

[Victor Odhner]

Seven bit?  Hey, when I started programming in
Burroughs ALGOL, their assignment operator was a
left-pointing arrow.  That was one of their 64
SIX-bit characters.

I'd be all for using a richer character set.
You wouldn't need Unicode to do that, just
the full ASCII set.

Vic

Anthony Nemmer wrote:
> No.  Everyone should learn to speak ENGLISH.  Then we can use seven bit 
> ASCII.
> 
> At least, that is My Humble Opinion.
> 
> Anthony Nemmer
> 
> Bill Lindley wrote:
> 
>> Hey, let's totally use Unicode -- If «these_puppies» aren't cool 
>> enough, then for starters, next we can replace the division operator, 
>> and have subroutines become sections.  Forget underlines, string 
>> concatenation becomes dot (·) :
>>
>> ---begin---
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> §compute_profit {
>>    my ($name, $profit, $member_count) = @_;
>>    my $share = $profit ÷ $member_count;
>>    return $name · "receives " · $share;
>> }