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 @nikitonsky only if all the people you're collaborating with are able to easily input this character  @nikitonsky @iliazeus not going to happen any time soon, unless keyboards would support sane input method on majority of OS. I can imagine typing greek characters everywhere having an easy way to do so (it's like with Cyrillic, you don't expect British to easily pickup 1C programming overnight), but given that my keyboard has only latin characters - I wouldn't even try. @nikitonsky Yay. I’m a fan of a small set of reasonably well-known math conventions eg. Δx, ε, x’, x’’ on the grounds that more code on the screen at once helps me keep more context when I’m reading it. (More of a clojure thing though. Maybe it’s the let-block culture. Somehow `delta-x` in scheme seems fine, but it could be that I’m so mentally engaged in matching undifferentiated parens I don’t notice that it could be better).  @nikitonsky I for one welcome the use of alchemy Unicode symbols like putrefaction and horse dung! @nikitonsky as a user-defined ligature-ish visual replacement, perhaps. I thought I like the idea of using unicode until I took part in a project that extensively used words in latvian with the diacritics in db columns and variable names — it didn't feel good at all, the colorators and analyzers broke all over the place and everything felt dirty and unshareable. Yet then there're apl-like esoterics like uiua.org that manage to make math symbols nice and typable (and some say, even readable).   @nikitonsky not well-supported enough. Keyboards and operating systems have mixed support, and copying and pasting isn't always feasible. We end up making life a little bit harder and less simple than it otherwise could be. I firmly believe code representation is an unsolved problem and hope we can move past everything has to be the same bytes for everyone, but until then, KISS. |