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- Subject: Re: Integer division
- From: Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:43:34 -0200
> ÷ is nice, but hard to type. We have already some users grumbling against ~...
> Scala made the choice to allow Unicode operators, but they can be
> problematic on some old systems, some editors, etc.
> Having ÷ in an expression might look odd... (and might look
> different in non-ISO8859-1 code pages!).
Please, "÷" was just a joke. Unicode operators seem very fashion, but
I at least live in a very different reallity. (All the time I have
problems with encoding of Portuguese accents in emails...)
-- Roberto