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Kurt Cagle scripsit: > The ^^ notation in N3 has always rather bothered me, if only because > visually, the ^ character in text tends to blend in, but I also know that if > programmers had their druthers all keyboards would include an additional 100 > non-alphabetic characters. It's just maddening to think of all the symbolic riches of Unicode being essentially out of reach because of the 101-key keyboard standard. What we need is the space-cadet keyboard, which had "shift", "top", and "front" keys to generate different characters, and "control", "meta" (aka "alt"), "super", and "hyper" keys to generate novel non-graphic characters. Still, "^^" or something like it is really needed in order to extend the type system, whereas metadata on an element will suffice for language tagging. -- When I'm stuck in something boring John Cowan where reading would be impossible or (who loves Asimov too) rude, I often set up math problems for cowan@c... myself and solve them as a way to pass http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the time. --John Jenkins
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