On 11 September 2015 at 21:00, Michael Kay wrote: > I’d like to put forward the idea of using chevrons instead. I like the idea. > Within a string constructor the sequence « introduces an embedded > expression, which must be followed by » I don't like this one though. It means that in plain text, the character "«" will have a special, technical meaning. This character is used in French (at least) as the double-quotes in English, and I expect this to resolve into a lot of surprise and potentially hard to catch bugs. If we are going out of the ASCII range (at last, in 2015), I suggest we find one that is less used in day-to-day editorial content (almost every news article in French would contain some « and », for instance, and not only in French it seems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table_for_all_languages ). Also, even though I like the idea of getting rid of the ASCII prison, I think we should still define an alternate marker, a sequence of ASCII character someone can decide to use instead of the non-ASCII character. My text editor is "clever" enough to let me type such non-ASCII character quite easily. But most text editors are disappointing. Regards, -- Florent Georges http://fgeorges.org/ http://h2oconsulting.be/
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