Anonymous user
Talk:Unicode variable names: Difference between revisions
m
fixed typing error
(He can type text using a Russian keyboard.) |
m (fixed typing error) |
||
Line 19:
::::: Actually keyboard entry is important. I haven't got delta keys on my keyboard. To get that triangle, I have to type 6 keys: \u25b3, and this does not actually produce the triangle visual, but a gives a backslash followed by the hex code that I typed. [[User:Markhobley|Markhobley]] 23:35, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
::::: How humanist. So a Russian wishing to type some text in, I don't know, Russian, he should use an US keyboard instead of a Cyrillic one, and type a whole lot of escape sequences, so that not even a Russian can read it, but some outdated compiler will be happy. Do we serve the computers, or do they serve us? --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 01:30, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
:::::: He can type text using a Russian keyboard. We are not talking about text, we are talking about source code. He can
::::“You just need to speak the language of the of compiler or interpreter.” Isn't it nice that a number of languages are happy to support non-ASCII in identifiers then? People can use (variations on) their own (human) language when communicating with the computer, and it will all be semantically sound too. Moreover, if the language supports them, it'd be a poor implementation of that language that didn't. ;–) –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 21:45, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
| |||