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vorg on Feb 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Julia Programming Language

> bracket pairs like (), [], {} are way too precious, imo, to squander on something like blocks

I disagree. Besides (), [], {}, and <>, there's plenty of other paired punctuation available in Unicode, such as...

⦃⦄⦅⦆⦇⦈⦉⦊⦋⦌⦍⦎⦏⦐⦑⦒⦓⦔⦖⦕⦗⦘⧘⧙⧚⧛⧼⧽〈〉《》「」『』【】〔〕〖〗〘〙〚〛❨❩❪❫❬❭❮❯❰❱❲❳❴❵⟦⟧⟨⟩⟪⟫

Inufu on Feb 19, 2012 [–]

Yeah, but those don't sit directly on your keyboard.

vorg on Feb 19, 2012 | [–]

Neither do many foreign language tokens like 我是加拿大人 but that doesn't stop me typing them in quickly using the IME. Admittedly those brackets aren't in any IME I know, but maybe they should be.

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