From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 16:05:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uefdhkt.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7e8ddf8f-163a-4d16-9ce2-25b0cb3f35aa@googlegroups.com
Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
> And even Elisp!
>
> *** Welcome to IELM *** Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (setq α 1 β 2 γ 3)
> 3 (#o3, #x3, ?\C-c)
> ELISP> (list α β γ)
> (1 2 3)
Some months ago I experimented with using Unicode on my coding. I was
very excited about it. At the end, the experience showed without a doubt
that it is a bad idea. One of the reasons is very familiar to us: a
funtamental feature of a programmer's font is how clearly it
distinguishes 1 from l, 0 from O. Using Unicode makes this problem
explode.
> ELISP>
>
> How much costly was that α to type than alpha?? One backslash!!
>
> Add to that the fact that programs are read
> - 10 times more than written during development
> - 100 times more during maintenance
Precisely, my experience is that Unicode makes things much harder to
read, and not ony because the problem mentioned above.
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2015-03-23 22:53 if vs. when vs. and: style question Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-24 0:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-24 0:34 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-24 0:22 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-24 2:28 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-24 6:12 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 0:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 0:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 2:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 2:51 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 7:12 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 14:02 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 14:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-25 14:52 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question now Unicode Dan Espen
2015-03-25 15:24 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:46 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-25 16:02 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 17:16 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-28 17:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 17:46 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:22 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 15:37 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:17 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 15:45 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-29 2:41 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 3:11 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 14:05 ` Óscar Fuentes [this message]
2015-03-29 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-30 1:55 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 2:25 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 18:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 0:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 1:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2015-03-30 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 9:44 ` tomas
2015-03-30 11:46 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 13:03 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 14:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-03-30 15:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-03-30 15:31 ` Óscar Fuentes
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2015-03-30 17:15 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-03-31 6:26 ` Reality and Proofs (was if vs. when vs. and: style question) Rusi
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2015-03-30 12:59 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Pascal J. Bourguignon
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2015-03-30 1:55 ` Rusi
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2015-03-25 15:33 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 15:36 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 16:06 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-25 16:19 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 16:23 ` Rusi
2015-03-29 1:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 17:02 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-25 18:23 ` Drew Adams
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2015-03-25 18:52 ` Dan Espen
2015-03-26 9:47 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-29 23:06 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-03-26 10:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 10:28 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 10:47 ` Unicode in source (Was Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question) Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 15:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 17:07 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 17:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 10:43 ` if vs. when vs. and: style question Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-26 13:02 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-04-01 22:03 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 22:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-25 19:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-25 22:21 ` Richard Wordingham
2015-03-25 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2015-03-25 23:52 ` Richard Wordingham
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2015-03-26 3:02 ` Rusi
2015-03-26 10:01 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 13:00 ` Rusi
2015-03-26 13:28 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-26 15:51 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 16:21 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-04-01 2:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 3:03 ` Rusi
2015-04-01 14:29 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-04-01 14:57 ` Rusi
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2015-03-26 4:23 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 19:20 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-26 11:37 ` Alan Schmitt
2015-03-30 1:20 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-30 2:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-30 3:12 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 17:49 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2015-03-25 21:27 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 21:32 ` Rusi
2015-03-31 16:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-31 17:22 ` Rusi
2015-04-01 18:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-04-01 20:01 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 3:54 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 7:59 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-27 8:06 ` tomas
2015-03-27 8:11 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2015-03-27 9:20 ` tomas
2015-03-27 9:31 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-27 12:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 13:05 ` tomas
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2015-03-27 13:35 ` Rusi
2015-03-27 12:34 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 0:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 7:53 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
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2015-03-27 8:56 ` Joost Kremers
2015-03-27 12:19 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-27 14:20 ` Rusi
2015-03-25 2:35 ` Rusi
2015-03-27 0:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 21:27 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-27 22:54 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-28 1:16 ` Rusi
2015-03-28 12:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-24 15:18 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-03-25 0:44 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-03-24 7:21 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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2015-03-25 0:34 ` Emanuel Berg
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2015-03-23 23:19 ` Emanuel Berg
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