Composition operator [was: Re: Records in Haskell]

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 18:15, Donn Cave <donn at avvanta.com> wrote:

> > Quoth Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com>,
> ...
> > Seems obvious to me:  on the one hand, there should be a plain-ASCII
> > version of any Unicode symbol; on the other, the ASCII version has
> > shortcomings the Unicode one doesn't (namely the existing conflict
> between
> > use as composition and use as module and now record qualifier).  So, the
> > Unicode one requires support but avoids weird parse issues.
>
> OK.  To me, the first hand is all you need - if there should be a
> plain-ASCII version of any Unicode symbol anyway, then you can avoid
> some trouble by just recognizing that you don't need Unicode symbols
> (let alone with different parsing rules.)
>

What?  The weird parsing rules are part of the ASCII one; it's what the
Unicode is trying to *avoid*. We're just about out of ASCII, weird parsing
is going to be required at some point.

I also wish to note that I have never been a member of the "anything beyond
plain ASCII is fundamental evil" set; if we're going to think that way,
just go back to BAUDOT and punched cards.

-- 
brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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