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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Eiffel cleanup #5: The character set
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Date: 25 Jan 90 01:54:04 GMT
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/ comp.lang.eiffel / shelley@atc.sps.mot.com (Norman K. Shelley) / Jan 24 1990/
> In fact I would appreciate the ability to use the
> exclamation point character as "not" and "/" (for "!=" instead of having
> to use "/="). A personal mapping file, preprocessor, or whatever to allow my
> taste (and many Unix/C programmers taste) would be extremely nice.

This is going too far.  It's one thing to accomodate hardware restrictions,
but quite another to provide character mappings for the purpose of personal
style.  Are you going to ship your personal mapping file with each file of
source code?  And what if there are several people working on one project
-- how are you going to associate their mappings with various files?
``#include "normans_key_map.h"''?

If "/=" bothers you so much, you can always run your programs through
something like "sed -e 's:!=:/=:g'" before letting the compiler (AND other
people) see it.

Jacob
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