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Subject: Re: Wasteful internationalization
From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@arcor.de>
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On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:37 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
>=20
> > On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:03 +0100, Markus E Leypold wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, 'PI' as greek letter in programs might be nice. But is h-bar
> >> (Plack constant) somewhere in Unicode? :-)
> >
> > Sure,
> > U+210F PLANCK CONSTANT OVER TWO PI
> > or '=E2=84=8F'

> (no, no, I'm joking. But impressing that unicode even has
> h-bar. Probably they also have everyone of the more "funny" operators
> of theoretical physics too. Of course that does not help in writing
> better physics programs, since some of the stuff need special parsing
> too).

Ada 2007 doesn't add symbols, AFAICS, but you can use symbols and more
in comments.
Both characters (Greek Pi) ('=CF=80') and (Planck Constant / 2*PI) ('=E2=84=
=8F')
are letters and can be used as identifiers.
Some of the symbols of Unicode have an internationally recognized
meaning, sometimes even a standardized meaning. They can therefore
add value to specification and review,

  -- In case of too much radiation (=E2=98=A2), start the shutdown procedur=
e
  -- and press the eject button (=E2=8F=8F)!

  if Radiation > Limit then
      System.Shutdown(Now);
      Press(Control_Panel, Button =3D> Eject);
  end if;


 -- Georg