Re: Updated XPath spec

>There must be a reason why Fortran, a most math-oriented language, uses the 2-letter comparisons vs. the mathematical symbols.

Of course there is! Fortran was designed 66 years ago for a character set of just 46 characters. The world has moved on.

(Interestingly, I've noticed that the latest version of IntelliJ uses symbols like ≤ when displaying a Java program, though it doesn't appear to accept them for data entry. I'm not proposing that we require such symbols - it will still be possible to write any expression using ASCII characters alone; but I think there are increasing opportunities to make code more legible by permitting them. But it's only an idea.)

Michael Kay
Saxonica