Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)

	open	closed	Total
Assigned issues	0	0	0
Reported issues	0	1	1

02:34 PM Ruby Feature #715: Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning: Ok, I agree that it's probably a good idea to introduce well known symbols like ≥ at first to avoid confusion. But I don't think the argument that it's hard to type on your particular computer is valid, partly because your editor could ... Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)
12:12 PM Ruby Feature #715: Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning: It's really easy to remember: to type ≥ is just alt + >, to type ≤ is alt + < and ≠ is alt + =, so I don't think you would need a character picker for very long. But more importantly using the new symbols would be entirely optional. If y... Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)

09:39 AM Ruby Feature #715: Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning: Both APL and Fortress predate decent UTF-8 support by a long time, I'm not sure that the fact that those failed in the past is still a convincing reason to reject out of hand the human factor advantages this could have. Do we want to lim... Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)

06:30 PM Ruby Feature #715: Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning: Just in case someone stumbled upon this old rejected feature request: there is a clever way of achieving most of this by using a font with ligatures that combines successive ascii characters into ligatures:
https://github.com/tonsky/Fir... Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)

10:07 PM Ruby Feature #715 (Rejected): Ruby interpreter should understand UTF-8 symbols with special meaning: I would like the ruby interpreter to understand symbols such as the greater-than-or-equal sign, as an alias for '>='.
This is not simply because it would look pretty, it would reduce the cognitive load on the programmer. At the moment... Fjan (Jan Maurits Faber)

Also available in: Atom

Ruby Issue Tracking System