Fortress programing language and Unicode

Fortress and Unicode

It's interesting that Fortress language freely uses Unicode chars.

The language designer Guy Steele recently gave a very interesting talk. See: Guy Steele on Parallel Programing. (Get rid of lisp cons) 2011. In it, he showed code snippets of his language Fortress, which uses Unicode as operators.

For example, list delimiters are Unicode angle bracket ⟨ ⟩ , for example: ⟨1,2,3⟩. List element extraction is using ⟦ ⟧. 〔see Matching Brackets in Unicode〕 It also uses the circle plus ⊕ as operator. 〔see Math Symbols in Unicode〕

Many today's languages do support Unicode in function or variable names (For example, α = 3) or function names (For example, “lambda” as “λ” or “function” as “ƒ”), or defining your own operators (For example, “⊕”). 〔see Which Programing Languages Allow Unicode Math Symbols in Function Name and Operator〕