Re: Inline VALOF

["Barry Cook" <Barry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a fundamental problem in having a large number of things to express 
and insisting on being limited to a monochrome, latin alphabet.

I guess this is partly because we use text editors and simple keyboards. 
I've not been at all impressed by the productivity of graphics input systems 
(drag and drop is so slow compared to touching a key or two).

I wonder if there is some intermediate, maybe a more flexible display 
(colour, more symbols) and extended keyboard use - I guess ctrl-... is 
fairly well used by the OS and Applications for shortcuts but ESC-... might 
offer some possibilities (it was originally intended to be used this way but 
got a bit hijacked somewhere - Unix?). Of course we might need extended 
editors (what happened to folding? - I don't see much mention of it, even 
though it is available in Emacs, ...).

     Barry.

Dr Barry M. Cook, BSc, PhD, CEng, MBCS, CITP, MIEEE
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "P.H.Welch" <P.H.Welch@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <A.E.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxxx>; <Barry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <D.C.Wood@xxxxxxxxxx>; 
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Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: Inline VALOF


> David Wood wrote:
>
> > >>   delay := (urgent ?? [1, 2]) * weeks
> >
> > Unfortunately ?? no longer works (presumably because of the extended
> > rendezvous).  We'd have to call it something else.
>
> That would be:
>
>  delay := (urgent -> [1, 2]) * weeks
>
> :)
>
> Peter.