Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unicode Haskell source -- Yippie!

On 2014-04-26 17:58, David Fox wrote:

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Kyle Murphy wrote:

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It's an interesting feature, and nice if you want that sort of thing, but not something I'd personally want to see as the default. Deviating from the standard ASCII set of characters is just too much of a hurdle to usability of the language.

On the other hand, maybe if its good enough for the entire field of Mathematics since forever there might be some benefit in it for us.

Typing into a computer != Handwriting (in various significant ways). Most of mathematics notation predates computers/typewriters. Just compare writing a formula by hand and typing the same formula in (La)TeX. Regards,