Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at 8:11:23 PM UTC+5:30, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> > For 50 years CS has been living in the impoverished world of ASCII.
>> > This makes people think CS and math are more far apart than they
>> > essentially/really are.
>> 
>> You might like to take a look at the Agda language,
>
> Yeah I know about
> 1. Agda... a bit overboard maybe?? but in the right direction
> 2. Fortress
> 3. Julia
> 4. Haskell (ghc) itself has a unicode extensions flag
>    after which we can write the rhses instead of the lhses
> => ⇒
> forall ∀
> <- →
> -> ←
> -<< ⤛
>>>- ⤜
Notice, that I asked the reader to compare the ease of input.

=>  super easy, two keys to type.
The unicode correspondance?  I would start typing C-x 8 RET double TAB
and not find it in the list. 

So I would have to launch clisp, 
   
   C-- slime RET clisp RET 

wait for it to boot then type:

   (lschar :name "RIGHT_ARROW") RET

the search for double, and not find it, then copy and paste it from your
message,

   (char-name #\⇒)

obtain the character name as "RIGHTWARDS_DOUBLE_ARROW", then type

   C-x 8 RET rightward double arrow RET

which, even if I had know it from the start, is still much more
difficult to type than just =>.




> Ironically the page where this is documented
> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.6.3/docs/html/users_guide/syntax-extns.html
> the last two dont work (show) because the html is charset=ISO-8859-1   :-)
> I guess unicode is a moving target...
>
> 5. And the mother of all -- APL

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