The Perl 6 community refers to ASCII as "Texas" for some reason http://docs.perl6.org/language/unicode_texas …
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"Why don't you just call it ASCII?" "Because then we wouldn't get to have this conversation!"
The "because everything's bigger there" explanation doesn't work because half of the ASCII operators are smaller bytewise than the Unicode.
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For example, U+1D452 "𝑒" which is 0xF0 0x9D 0x91 0x92, vs. an ASCII "e" which is one byte?
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@qntm Is that even a default Perl 6 operator? If not, anyone making an operator that looks exactly like an e is a bigger prob than utf8 size
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@qntm If you want a source for this line (dubious though its rationale is), it's http://design.perl6.org/S99.html#Texas_operator …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@qntm They’re larger widthwise, though?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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