Re^7: Why should any one use/learn Perl 6?

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So, should I hop over to the Netherlands and let you type the character or steal your MacBook Pro instead?

You're welcome to try :-) But seriously, my point was that in the future there will be more ways to enter Unicode characters. Now, how that VARIATION SELECTOR-16 got there, it looks like it is a new feature of High Sierra :-( I've recently upgraded and am 100% sure it would not add the VARIATION SELECTOR-16 before. Grrr. It even does that from the Symbols viewer. Double Grrr.

Thank you for spotting this. Wonder whether we would need to fix this in Perl 6 (so that it wouldn't matter if there is a VARIATION SELECTOR after it or not.

With regards to possible confusion, that's also possible in the ASCII world: e.g. atomic-inc-fetch($ok) versus atomic_int_fetch or atonic-inc-fetch.

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Re^8: Why should any one use/learn Perl 6? by haj (Vicar) on Jun 11, 2018 at 22:28 UTC
liz: With regards to possible confusion, that's also possible in the ASCII world: e.g. `atomic-inc-fetch($ok)` versus `atomic_int_fetch` or `atonic-inc-fetch`. So true! I guess we all have been through that: `0` or `O`? `l` or `1` or `\|`? `_` or `-`? I try to make this more bearable by choosing a suitable font: This works reasonably well with the limited set of glyphs in ASCII, but is a considerable challenge for Unicode.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^8: Why should any one use/learn Perl 6?
by haj (Vicar) on Jun 11, 2018 at 22:28 UTC

liz: With regards to possible confusion, that's also possible in the ASCII world: e.g. atomic-inc-fetch($ok) versus atomic_int_fetch or atonic-inc-fetch.

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