Re: Unicode procedure names

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Tirifto <address@hidden> writes:

> I was recently looking into Perl 6 and noticed a very neat feature
> about it: Unicode operators! That is, it makes use of some Unicode
> symbols to offer alternatives to awkward or verbose ASCII notation.
> For instance, ‘>=’ and ‘<=’ may just as well be written as ‘≥’ and
> ‘≤’, respectively. [1] And ‘∈’ checks whether an item is an element
> of a list. [2] [3]

Neat.

> Now, I don't know if this is something you think would be nice to have
> baked into Guile, but I really liked the idea, and thought to share it
> in the case you would, too (and have't thought of it yet). :)

I think this could be implemented as a library of aliase and thus
wouldn’t need to have any privileged access to Guile itself.

--
Ricardo