On Jul 18, 2013, at 10:48 , Andy Earnshaw <andyearnshaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I was thinking about this subject a while ago and found an interesting thread [1] on the Scala debate mailing list.  I was going to raise this question back then, but I forgot about it until now.  If I understand correctly, several Unicode symbols are aliases for ASCII operators, for example:
> 
> =>  ⇒   // implemented
> <-  ←   // implemented
> ->  →   // implemented
> 
> 
> At the time I saw this, I thought it was pretty interesting.  The thread goes on to suggest more could be implemented:
> >=  ≥
> <=  ≤
> 
> *   ×   multiplication  // this one's probably an ASCII approximation
> /   ÷   division
> !   ¬   logical negation
> ^   ⊕   exclusive or
> !=  ≠   not equal
> 
> Perhaps we could think about this for ECMAScript, along with the rest(e.g. ≈ for == and ≡ for ===).  Would there be any harm in it if we kept the ASCII equivalents intact?  By putting them in we may be looking toward the future where this kind of thing is (hopefully) more common in programming languages (and on keyboards).
> 
> Andy
> 
>  [1] http://www.scala-lang.org/node/4723

Earlier discussion:
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-April/thread.html#22077

Norbert

Earlier discussion: [Digraphs *and* Unicode pretty-glyphs, for arrows, triangle, etc.](http://esdiscuss.org/topic/digraphs-and-unicode-pretty-glyphs-for-arrows-triangle-etc)

Earlier discussion: https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2012-April/thread.html#22077