Phoenix.pm: quoting constant hash keys survey

Anthony Nemmer intertwingled at qwest.net
Tue Apr 20 16:51:33 CDT 2004


Hey, wow.  One of the things I collect is character sets.  If you still 
have your old manuals, could you scan the character set table in for me 
(if there is one) and send it to me?

Thanks,
Tony

Victor Odhner wrote:

> 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;
>>> }
>>
>
>
>


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