Re: Syntax and redundancy

[Adrian Perez <moebius.lists@...>]

El 30/08/2005, a las 18:51, Philippe Lhoste escribió:

> Rici Lake wrote:
>
> > if (a < 0) { ... } else if (a > 0) { ... } else { ... }
> > if a < 0 then ... elseif a > 0 then ... else ... end
> > Advantage: Lua, 3 fewer keystrokes
> > And in both cases, the Lua was much easier to type; far fewer uses  
> > of the shift key.
>
> Or the Alt Gr key, which is even more inconvenient, for those of us  
> with non Qwerty keyboards.
> To have accented char handy, at places familiar to former  
> typewriter users, most of the C special chars (ie. ~#{[|\^]} plus `  
> and @) are accessible only with this special key (equivalent to Ctrl 
> +Alt).

The AltGr inconvenience is found even in some Qwerty keyboards  
layouts. Our spanish keyboards (those with the funny "ñ") are a good  
example as you also need AltGr in order to type ~#{[|\^]}`@ ...

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Adrian Perez
GPUL/CLUG member » http://gpul.org
Por los puntos #20 y #54.

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