Re: Unicode in source (Was Re: if vs. when vs. and: style question)

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

"Gian Uberto Lauri" <saint@eng.it> writes:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon writes:
>
>  > And also, you can already do it,
>
> I knew it.
>
>  > using those same Chinese ideograms.
>  > 
>  >   数量 = amount = quantità
>
> With LISP macros you could have a fully Chinese domain specific
> language.
>
> Why this could be bad?

Because it's easier to learn English and easier to type quantity instead
of quantita, than to learn 8000+ ideograms and type one of them.

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