On 8/14/05, Lee Revell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know the alternatives are available. That doesn't make it any less
> idiotic to use non ASCII characters as operators. I think it's a very
> slippery slope. We write code in ASCII, dammit.
Yes you and I might write 99.9% of our code in good'ol **American**
Standard Code for Information Interchange -- however not all the world
is USA. For instance notice the http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut/
in "Löwis"... Seems like lots of Europeans might want a bigger
charset, not to mention Asians, Hindus, and whomever else.
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