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That feels to me that you're blaming a poorly implemented editor / IDE for a language feature. If you use ² and ³ a lot in your work, I'm sure you can install
by lizmat 4y ago
That feels to me that you're blaming a poorly implemented editor / IDE for a language feature.
If you use ² and ³ a lot in your work, I'm sure you can install a macro / keybinding / whatever to access them quickly.
And in any other case, https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_ascii is a bit of a Rosetta stone in the cases you don't know how to type them, because you can copy / paste them from there.
Finally, the Raku documentation also contains information on how to type these unicode characters on your OS: https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_entry https://docs.raku.org/language/unicode_entry .
- shagie 4y agoI believe that the language feature is cute. I'm ok with APL doing all its special characters, but if you can write the same syntax in two ways, one of which is much more accessible than the other, then the less accessible way was a poor design choice. Allowing for two styles for the same syntax can (and will) lead to multiple styles depending on who wrote that line. Conflicting styles (mixing tabs and spaces anyone?) in turn makes the maintenance of the code more difficult and time consuming which is something that is often forgotten in the rush to write code.