Are there any programming languages that support the use of unicode logic operators? For example, many programming languages use "!=" as the "does not equal"
operator, but in mathematics the symbol is "≠".
Since unicode is now more standardized, why don't programming languages support their use as logical operators? Many of the symbols are on my keyboard, I just hit the alt button.
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Yes some languages do. Why not more? Probably because it's a pain to type. I use all the languages I linked above and I rarely use unicode syntax, it's not on my keyboard and it adds about 0 value to my code. I'm also aware of the fact that unicode is standardized, but not always implemented well. Emacs had problems with it until quite recently, many languages still are bad at unicode which makes it a pain to parse/autogenerate. That being said, when I do any literate programming or typeset code in anyway, I do use unicode, but there it's with a simple script to do textual substitutions. |
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≠using my QWERTY keyboard? – Bryan Chen Nov 6 '13 at 4:37"alt"+"="– kyle k Nov 6 '13 at 4:54alt+some number does print it, but too hard for me to remember what number – Bryan Chen Nov 6 '13 at 4:57