Re: the meaning of rﾕ.......�¾

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> Some day, we're going to have programming languages that take advantage
> of the full unicode character set.  Right now, we're working in ASCII
> and creating silly digrams/trigrams like r'' for raw strings (and triple-quotes for multi-line
> strings).  Not to mention <=, >=, ==, !=.  And in languages other than
> python, things like ->, => (arrows for structure membership), and so on.

REXX predates Unicode, I think, or at least its widespread adoption,
but it has a non-ASCII operator:

http://www.rexswain.com/rexx.html#operators

But personally, I've always used backslash. It's nothing to do with
ASCII and everything to do with having it on the keyboard. Before you
get a language that uses full Unicode, you'll need to have fairly
generally available keyboards that have those keys.

ChrisA