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Pascal Obry wrote:
> 
> In most cases probably. But for example it is nice to be able to support
> Unicode characters as the ? (greek pi) in Ada.Numerics. I bet
> mathematicians will love to be able to use all sort of greek letters in
> their Ada prorams :)

Perhaps. I recall one project that involved implementing a lot of matrix 
and vector operations, hand written using Latin and Greek characters. I 
had a variable named W_Hat. It was actually a small omega with a 
circumflex, but luckily there were no Ws in the math.

It will probably improve, but frequently such characters do not display 
as intended. For the present, I'd rather not see code with meaningless 
or non-graphic characters that display as something else for the originator.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of
thought, careening through a cosmic vapor of invention."
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