Unicode character names enshrined in a new programming language

From: Nelson H. F. Beebe (beebe@math.utah.edu)
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 07:00:19 CDT

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    Recent discussions on this list debated the use of Unicode character
    names in software.

    This morning, I learned of a language project, Fortress, at Sun, led
    by noted computer scientist Guy L. Steele Jr.. Fortress supports use
    of Unicode character names in software. See

            http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/view/673
            http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/

    and the language specification at

            http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/fortress0618.pdf

    From p. 105 of the latter:

    >> ...
    >> The expression:
    >> (GREEK_SMALL_LETTER_PHI GREEK_SMALL_LETTER_PSI +
    >> GREEK_SMALL_LETTER_OMEGA GREEK_SMALL_LETTER_LAMBDA)
    >> is converted to:
    >> ($\phi \psi + \omega \lambda$)
    >> ...

    (I've used TeX notation for the Greek expression to keep this posting
    in plain ASCII).

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