Re: what I learned from today's discussion of delimiters

> Issue - minor.
>    I'm assuming we pick a non ASCII delimiter. In emacs, easy. What
> experience do we have of other editors on other OS's? How easy is it
> to generate a visible Unicode glyph on other editors?

We could do The Worst Possible Thing™, as working groups are wont to do,
and pick both: allow either a two-character set of ASCII delimiter or a
single set of delimiters from a broader repertoire of characters.

For example, 

  {# pragma goes here #}

and 

  ¿ pragma goes here ?

could be treated as equivalent pragma declarations.

I’m not hugely fond of the idea. It seems to introduce (more)
unnecessary variation in the syntax. But if it allowed us to move on,
I’d hold my nose and let it pass.

> Other than this I'm happy to let others choose any such character. I
> do like 'matching' pairs, so my personal preference might be
> guillemets for no other reason.

FWIW, « and » are no easier to type on my keyboard than ¿ and ?.
(Or, if they are, I don’t know what the mechanism is, which I expect is
roughly equivalent to not being easier.)



                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica