[Haskell-cafe] Language simplicity

Andrew Coppin andrewcoppin at btinternet.com
Wed Jan 13 14:25:19 EST 2010


Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>     Andrew> It's weird that us Haskell people complain about there
>     Andrew> being only 26 letters in the alphabet
>
> Which alphabet?
> You have plenty of choice in Unicode.
>   

Er... I was under the impression that Haskell source code uses the ASCII 
character set, not Unicode.

(And even if that's not the case, I've yet to find a way to type in the 
Unicode characters which are hypothetically possible.)



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