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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by vorg on Saturday February 18, 2012 @09:09PM (#3608411)
> bracket pairs like (), [], {} are way too precious, imo, to squander on something like blocks

I disagree. Besides (), [], {}, and <>, there's plenty of other paired punctuation available in Unicode, such as...

⦃⦄⦅⦆⦇⦈⦉⦊⦋⦌⦍⦎⦏⦐⦑⦒⦓⦔⦖⦕⦗⦘⧘⧙⧚⧛⧼⧽〈〉《》「」『』【】〔〕〖〗〘〙〚〛❨❩❪❫❬❭❮❯❰❱❲❳❴❵⟦⟧⟨⟩⟪⟫

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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by Inufu on Sunday February 19, 2012 @04:22AM (#3609028)
Yeah, but those don't sit directly on your keyboard.
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Re:Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to... by vorg on Sunday February 19, 2012 @06:02AM (#3609123)
Neither do many foreign language tokens like 我是加拿大人 but that doesn't stop me typing them in quickly using the IME. Admittedly those brackets aren't in any IME I know, but maybe they should be.
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