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Re:Smalltalk Type by FullyFunctional on Monday March 27, 2023 @09:46PM (#35334778)
Having lived part of the early history, I'd counter that this was a very good thing indeed. ASCII provided some sanity and allowed ideas to spread and proliferate.

We can revisit the character sets now that Unicode is ubiquitous. As for typing non-ASCII characters, that has been daily practices for decades _outside_ of north America.

Re:Smalltalk Type by anthk on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @03:40AM (#35337160)
Eh, wait. Maybe for comments and strings, but we, the non-ASCII language users such as Spanish, avoided to put ñ's and accented chars as _code_ almost as a religious dogma.

Tildes in Spanish are just used to mark the stressed syllabe when it's outside the stressing rules, and the diaeresis it's to make the 'u' non silent in gue/gui/que/qui. So if we read "funcion" without being written "función", don't worry, we aren't writting a literary test, it's code.

I'd hate to debug code written in Chinese instead of English. And Golang allows that I think, and lots of languages too.

Re:Smalltalk Type by tragomaskhalos on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @09:22AM (#35340632)
Believe you meant to write that _accents_ are used to mark stress that's outside the normal rules
Re:Smalltalk Type by anthk on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @10:12AM (#35341402)
That's what I meant.