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Sure, because you have a julia plugin. Not every casual user trying out the language will bother, or want to bother installing someone else's plugin. They'll
by dnautics 5y ago
Sure, because you have a julia plugin. Not every casual user trying out the language will bother, or want to bother installing someone else's plugin. They'll just hit a function call they need to make with a Unicode character, go WTF man, and give up.
- leephillips 5y agoI don’t have a Julia plugin. I don’t even understand what you think the problem is.
- bmn__ 5y ago> They'll just hit a function call they need to make with a Unicode character This is optional, the language adapts to the capability of the user. He can write ∑ or sum for a function, µ or mu for an identifier. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/ https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/functions/ You get people riled up in this thread with your false assumption, next time simply ask questions.
- dnautics 5y agothat's for stuff in the stdlib. You can't control library writers, and julia does not force a function identifier that is mapped to unicode to have a "non-unicode equivalent", though, that might be interesting.
- DNF2 5y agoIf libraries use unicode in their internals, it doesn't affect you or me. And I have yet to see in the wild any examples of unicode identifiers that are required for use. The closest thing i can think of is the composition operator in Base, though it has a somewhat awkward ascii equivalent. Do you have any example? As far as I know this is strongly discouraged in the community.