Is it possible to support extra braces? Like, convert ⟨a, b⟩ to angle(a, b), ⌊x⌋ to floor(Int, x), and ⌈x⌉ to ceil(Int, x). If the change is not difficult, I can make a pr :stuck_out_tongue:

I definitely agree it would be really nice to have more brackets.

Welcome to cryptic Julia!! I was never impressed by using unicode in Julia, nothing is more readable than plain text. If I say alpha, why should I write α? It just adds to line noise. See how people criticize this on Quora , for example. IMHO, angle(a, b) is way more readable than ⟨a, b⟩.

[image] Seif_Shebl: nothing is more readable than plain text I absolutely, emphatically disagree with this. If this were true, math and physics papers would be entirely in plain text. They evolved to look the way they do in order to be readable . [image] Seif_Shebl: If I say alpha , why…

[image] Seif_Shebl: nothing is more readable than plain text. Thankfully, Julia doesn’t force you to use unicode. [image] Seif_Shebl: If I say alpha , why should I write α ? I say “tee”, but write “t”, what’s the difference?

Math and physics papers are written like this because we, humans, understand the following formula at a glance: \zeta = \frac{\left|\ln\left(\frac{P_0}{100}\right)\right|}{\sqrt{\pi^2+\ln^2\left(\frac{P_0}{100}\right)}} If a whole formula like this can be parsed and executed correctly, that’s a dr…

I see your point, but consider that only a fraction of the variables in any chunk of code are going to be αs. Most of them will always be your good old as and xs… What’s freaking awesome is that the part of the code that represents actual formulas can be coded exactly like that. That surly makes it …

[image] Seif_Shebl: Math and physics papers are written like this because we, humans, understand the following formula at a glance: Ok, so isn’t it nice to be able to do ζ = abs(log(P₀/100))/√(π^2 + log(P₀/100)^2) Are you really arguing that this is a perfectly understandable formula, but t…

Its still 5 strokes. \alp hold tab.

Okay, pr submitted. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/27697

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Internals & Design

innerlee June 21, 2018, 1:18am 18

I will play around the bra and kets (ref A Qubit DSL? - #26 by ExpandingMan) a little bit to see if it is feasible.

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