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Hard disagree on single characters for logic and exponentiation. ASCII has too few special characters and you'd want to use those elsewhere, without creating am
by lvass 4y ago
Hard disagree on single characters for logic and exponentiation. ASCII has too few special characters and you'd want to use those elsewhere, without creating ambiguity. Elixir got it right.
- PointyFluff 4y agoASCII has tones of unused chars we could grab for coding.
- junon 4y agoMm yes but BEL is not a character that can be typed on a keyboard with any amount of ease.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- dragonwriter 4y ago> ASCII has too few special characters Unicode, OTOH, doesn’t have this problem.
- josephg 4y agoTrue, but we don’t have Unicode keyboards.