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On 2006-10-27 at 20:36 +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote: > Look, a multiplication sign! > > × ← Over there! > > I dunno. It remains more work to type, even if your editor isn't > dumber than technology from the stone age of personal computing, > but I spend a lot more time poring over code (and if it's just > code that I wrote 5 minutes ago) then I spend typing it. As long > as there's some restraint and the matter isn't taken to APL-esque > absurdity, the argument for better operator characters isn't so > plainly stupid. It would be nice if someday using a computer > didn't mean suffering bad typography. You bastard. I just spent 20 minutes trying to debug some Perl I'd just written which wasn't working, only to discover that for the first time ever I'd tried using an 'x' as a multiplication operator for a computer. Three times. My mind was contaminated with recollections of Real Math. Gaaaah! ObHate: broken software which allows you to use something other than an FQDN for the right-hand-side of a Message-Id. "klangraum"?There's stuff above here
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