From: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab@web.de>
To: guile-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Tirifto <tirifto@posteo.cz>
Subject: Re: Unicode procedure names
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 01:52:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736j6g8jc.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y30zgfuc.fsf@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
> Tirifto <tirifto@posteo.cz> writes:
>
>> I was recently looking into Perl 6 and noticed a very neat feature
>> about it: Unicode operators! That is, it makes use of some Unicode
>> symbols to offer alternatives to awkward or verbose ASCII notation.
>> For instance, ‘>=’ and ‘<=’ may just as well be written as ‘≥’ and
>> ‘≤’, respectively. [1] And ‘∈’ checks whether an item is an element
>> of a list. [2] [3]
>
> Neat.
>
>> Now, I don't know if this is something you think would be nice to have
>> baked into Guile, but I really liked the idea, and thought to share it
>> in the case you would, too (and have't thought of it yet). :)
>
> I think this could be implemented as a library of aliase and thus
> wouldn’t need to have any privileged access to Guile itself.
All you need to do is
(define ≥ >=)
And you can use (≥ 2 1) — if you use SRFI-105 (#!curly-infix), then you
can also use it as {2 ≥ 1}.
Best wishes,
Arne
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-15 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-12 15:59 Unicode procedure names Tirifto
2019-07-15 21:14 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-15 23:52 ` Arne Babenhauserheide [this message]
2019-07-16 12:41 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-07-16 12:51 ` Hans Åberg
2019-07-16 13:18 ` Arne Babenhauserheide
2019-07-16 13:49 ` Hans Åberg
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