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Do you, or does anyone you know, regularly use unicode input like that in your day to day programming? It sounds like you might. I'm super interested in symbol
by badtuple 7y ago
Do you, or does anyone you know, regularly use unicode input like that in your day to day programming? It sounds like you might.
I'm super interested in symbols as a way of increasing expressivity, but the ctrl+cmd+space route just seems like it'd be too much overhead for the tradeoff to be worth it.
I'd love to hear what people who have gotten over the learning curve think about it as a language feature.
- uryga 7y agoi regularly use Compose for unicode symbols, mostly stuff like ←↑↓→–≠ . it's not too clunky, for example "→" is "RAlt, -, >" in succession.
- longemen3000 7y agoJulia allows the use of unicode variables and functions, which is pretty cool for scientific notation.they are written using latex shortcuts, and the REPL gives you how to write a symbol if you don't know how to do it
- breck 7y agoYes. Have one experimental mathy one and one silly one for parents. Will post one of those soon. I don’t like them unless the tooling is great. With proper tooling, it’s looking to be a very interesting new area of r and d.