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"Will contributions to Akka that use ASCII arrows now be rejected?" I guess that this will be solved and has been solved in that commit with a formatting tool,
by drtse4 15y ago
"Will contributions to Akka that use ASCII arrows now be rejected?"
I guess that this will be solved and has been solved in that commit with a formatting tool, but for me the answer to your last question is definitely "no", putting unicode arrow "aliases" in the language is a completely useless cosmetic feature.
How many programmer will type a unicode arrow manually? Is this really necessary? I'm generally against adding purely cosmetic feature like this one, if it does not improve the language in a clear and tangible way, just leave it out.
- fhars 15y agoCode redability is more importand that saving a keystroke, and code that looks less ugly is easier to read. You should view the ascii replacements like => like you view the trigraph replacements C allows you to write if you editor or terminal don't allow exotic characters like {.
- regularfry 15y agoCode that is difficult to write is difficult to rewrite. I'm not sure I know how I'd type a unicode back-arrow without menuing through a character map or copying and pasting it from somewhere.
- benblack 15y agoThe formatting tool in question defaults to _not_ doing this, specifically to comply with the Scala Style Guide which does _not_ do this. The tool had to be explicitly configured to make this unfortunate change.