left-quote ( ` ) on International keyboards [Prothon]

[Christophe Cavalaria]

Mark Hahn wrote:

> Timo Virkkala wrote:
> 
>> Mark Hahn wrote:
>>> We are thinking of using it as a marker for "symbols" in Prothon.
>>> They are like strings but can only be legal variable labels: `var,
>>> `init_, `x, `account_balance, etc.  I think in our application they
>>> look good and won't be mistaken for quotes since they don't come in
>>> pairs.  They are readable and distinquishable in this context.
>>> Also, symbols won't be used that frequently so typing won't be too
>>> much of a pain.
>>
>> Why not use something like $ or something? I'm not familiar with
>> Prothon, so I don't know if $ is already used for something, but it's
>> a character normally used with symbols/placeholders/etc.
> 
> We aren't using any of the oddball symbols any more, so $ is free.  I'm a
> little wary of proposing using it though.  The last time I proposed using
> $ Prothon was accused of being Perl :-)
> 
> I'll put it up for vote on the Prothon mailing list.  You can come by and
> vote for it :-)
> 
> Is $ easier to type on foreign keyboards?

$ is one of the only thing easy to type in a french keyboard. Thanks god
that we don't need to type too many {} in Python for they are the worst :)

Of course, I can't speak for other keyboard layouts.