Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible? - Yann Régis-Gianas

From: "Yann Régis-Gianas" <yann.regis-gianas@inria.fr>
To: "Robert Fischer" <Robert@fischerventure.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 19:02:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1af89fca0805021002j26c78214m84b4a7adafb38ef@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481B24DB.5030709@FischerVenture.com>

Note that emacs22 has a TeX input mode which enables you to write TeX
commands instead of tedious numeric code. I use it for my Coq
development, \forall in the emacs buffer is translated to the
corresponding unicode symbol on-the-fly.

On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Robert Fischer
<Robert@fischerventure.com> wrote:
> Yeah, I vote against having to type Alt+number to edit someone else's
>  code.  I'd rather that we start allowing LaTeX symbols in our source
>  before we actually have the Unicode symbols themselves in there.
>
>  Oh, and +1 for actually supporting Unicode in String processing.
>
>  ~~ Robert.
>
>
>
>  Alain Frisch wrote:
>  > Richard Jones wrote:
>  >> In fact can we open the discussion about converting OCaml source files
>  >> into UTF-8 and allow _lots_ more symbols?  eg:
>  >>
>  >>   let (∪) = ...
>  >>   let (⊆) = ...
>  >
>  > Shouldn't this desire of using mathematical symbols be addressed at
>  > the level of your editor / IDE instead?  If the language allowed you
>  > to define and use alphanumeric infix operators like:
>  >
>  >   let (`subseteq`) = ...
>  >   if (x `subseteq` y) then ...
>  >
>  > then you could simply inform your editor that it should display
>  > `subseteq` as ⊆. The tuareg mode already does this kind of
>  > "symbolification" of some operators like -> (displayed as an arrow)
>  > and 'a (display as a Greek alpha) and it shouldn't be too difficult to
>  > extend that to user-defined operators.
>  >
>  > -- Alain
>  >
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-- 
Yann Régis-Gianas