Friday Finking: Beyond implementing Unicode
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Fri Jun 12 12:47:57 EDT 2020
On 6/12/2020 2:03 AM, DL Neil via Python-list wrote:
> Unicode has given us access to a wealth of mathematical and other
> symbols. Hardware and soft-/firm-ware flexibility enable us to move
> beyond and develop new 'standards'. Do we have opportunities to make
> computer programming more math-familiar and/or more
> logically-expressive, and thus easier to learn and practice? Could we
> develop Python to take advantage of these opportunities?
...
> Could we then also 'update' Python, to accept the wider range of symbols
> instead/in-addition to those currently in-use?
>
> Would such even constitute 'a good idea'?
There was a recent thread on python-ideas discussing this. It started
with arrow characters. There have been others.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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