blessed be Guido, for "5 <= X <= 10" does what it should...

Pete Forman gsez020 at kryten.bedford.waii.com
Wed Apr 5 03:59:53 EDT 2000


>>>>> "Samuel" == Samuel A Falvo <kc5tja at garnet.armored.net> writes:

    Samuel> In article <3TpG4.3349$HG1.98231 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>, Warren
    Samuel> Postma wrote:
    >> (Actually I'd write the <= as '?' (Unicode U+2264) but using
    >> such things in our code would seriously cramp portability.
    >> Hey, is the APL symbol set anywhere in Unicode!?)

    Samuel> Astonishingly enough, it is.  Or so I've been told.  Not
    Samuel> sure where or how to verify this, though, as I've never
    Samuel> used APL.  It's part of their 32-bit character set.

APL runs from U+2336 to U+237A.  It additionally reuses some other
characters.

BTW Unicode is 16 bit; it is aligned with the BMP subset of the 31 bit
ISO 10646.
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