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It's perfectly fine if and only if you're on a Mac. It gets bad on every other platform.

jacobolus 9y ago
If you actually need to use this seriously there are ways of customizing keyboard layouts and text input on every platform and every reasonable text editor.
- setr 9y ago
  You can also change the lozenge operator to a different character. Its just convenient to pick one you won't ever have to escape
  - Ygg2 9y ago
    That is until you find an obscure enough example that uses it.
    - IshKebab 9y ago
      I've never seen a vaguely popular programming language use ¬ and that is available on all keyboards (for some weird reason).
      - pathsjs 9y ago
        It surely is not avaiable on mine. Maybe it's a local thing?
        yathern 9y ago
        I believe UK keyboards? I say this because when installing a new OS and it defaults to en-UK locale, some of my buttons on the right side of the keyboard do unexpected things (US here), and I always have to look up where exactly the single-quote button is. I believe sometimes that angle pops up.
      - sigzero 9y ago
        I have only seen Applescript use it.
    - setr 9y ago
      Presumably your usage is limited enough not to cover the entire unicode space, and even if you hit the current operator, it should be trivial to update all previous work with a new character, since its prior usage was unambiguous (literally character replacement). Tbh if you're assuming unicode input (which pollen does), and assuming its easy to write the character (which it is, given that system hotkeys for unicode are available or can be made available on most/all target systems), then it seems to me absurd to use the normal ascii character + escape character operators for embedding functionality in text
- Semiapies 9y ago
  Sure, but it's absurd to have to set up custom text entry for an unusual character just to use a programming language. Especially when every other template language manages to do so with characters I don't have to customize my text editor to simply type.
fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago
On Linux you can configure the combinations that the compose key accepts.

If you actually need to use this seriously there are ways of customizing keyboard layouts and text input on every platform and every reasonable text editor.

setr 9y ago
You can also change the lozenge operator to a different character. Its just convenient to pick one you won't ever have to escape
- Ygg2 9y ago
  That is until you find an obscure enough example that uses it.
  - IshKebab 9y ago
    I've never seen a vaguely popular programming language use ¬ and that is available on all keyboards (for some weird reason).
    - pathsjs 9y ago
      It surely is not avaiable on mine. Maybe it's a local thing?
      - yathern 9y ago
        I believe UK keyboards? I say this because when installing a new OS and it defaults to en-UK locale, some of my buttons on the right side of the keyboard do unexpected things (US here), and I always have to look up where exactly the single-quote button is. I believe sometimes that angle pops up.
    - sigzero 9y ago
      I have only seen Applescript use it.
  - setr 9y ago
    Presumably your usage is limited enough not to cover the entire unicode space, and even if you hit the current operator, it should be trivial to update all previous work with a new character, since its prior usage was unambiguous (literally character replacement). Tbh if you're assuming unicode input (which pollen does), and assuming its easy to write the character (which it is, given that system hotkeys for unicode are available or can be made available on most/all target systems), then it seems to me absurd to use the normal ascii character + escape character operators for embedding functionality in text
Semiapies 9y ago
Sure, but it's absurd to have to set up custom text entry for an unusual character just to use a programming language. Especially when every other template language manages to do so with characters I don't have to customize my text editor to simply type.

fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago

On Linux you can configure the combinations that the compose key accepts.