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• Heather Cynede commented  ·  April 12, 2013 12:02 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Here is Unicode letters implementation: http://heather.cynede.net/2013/04/f-unicode-in-action.html

  But I need help with Unicode operators for now =)

• maverick commented  ·  September 25, 2012 1:04 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

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• Tao commented  ·  September 10, 2012 11:54 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  See http://apollo13cn.blogspot.com/2012/09/math-unicode-symbol-add-on-for-f.html for a Visual Studio add-on.

• Rickasaurus commented  ·  July 11, 2012 10:45 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I've got a modern APL Keyboard (you can order them from UNICOMP with USB) and I'd love to have this feature.

• nicolas.rolland commented  ·  April 24, 2012 11:03 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  would be very cool. very cool. good bang for the buck feature methink.

• Gustavo Guerra commented  ·  February 25, 2012 4:14 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's not hard to type. You set up the greek keyboard on control panel and then and set a global hotkey like Ctrl+Alt+Shift to switch from/to it, then the ∑ is just the capital S, and similar for other symbols

• Jon Harrop commented  ·  November 2, 2011 10:28 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This would be awesome!

• Finn Neuik commented  ·  October 25, 2011 2:00 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  I've been learning a little Haskell recently and something I like about the emacs mode is that it'll do a conversion on the fly between standard keywords and unicode representations. For example typing -> results in emacs showing →. It's nice seeing things like composition, nil, etc appearing 'correctly' and you easily add more. The source code itself remains with the standard characters. It'd be great to see something similar in F# (or rather Visual Studio) as I find it sometimes makes code a little opaque when you have to chase definitions of operators. The only issue with the emacs mode is that it messes with the whitespace (e.g. forall and . ∀ , use a different number of characters) but I'm guessing that could be worked out.

• Daniel Jackson commented  ·  October 18, 2011 12:53 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  With much improved intellisense, typing these operators might not be as big of an issue. <sarcasm>Alternatively, you could try and convince your employer to provide and gift you an "Optimus Maximus" keyboard.</sarcasm>

• N N commented  ·  October 16, 2011 8:10 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Does anyone remember those APL keyboards? http://world.std.com/~jdostale/kbd/SpaceCadet.html

• Yusuf Motara commented  ·  October 14, 2011 6:40 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It's a bit annoying on Windows, since you have to set it up by editing a registry value and rebooting (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code).

  Then to type ∑, you turn on NumLock, hold down Alt, then press the following keys in turn: U, Numpad-Plus, 2, 2, 1, 1. (2211 is the Unicode character ∑; it can be typed either on the top-row of numbers or on the numpad). You can find more mathematical symbols here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_operators_and_symbols_in_Unicode

• SealedSun commented  ·  October 14, 2011 3:05 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  That's a cool idea, but how do you type these characters? I'm using the macro keys on my Logitech G15 (1st gen) keyboard, but I find it far from ideal.