Xah Talk Show 2025-02-20 Ep616 Why Should You Use Math Symbols and Unicode in Programing Language

• https://youtu.be/4O_nqEn680E

• For coders. Emacs Community.
• The Alan Mackenzie faakhead, aggressive skum, done damage to emacs.
• https://youtu.be/4O_nqEn680E?t=1446

• Alan Mackenzie guy, aggressive skum
• Emacs Dev, Alan Mackenzie, Resigns 2024-11
• Emacs Lisp Doc String Curly Quote Controversy (2015)
• Elisp: Docstring Markup
• Lean Lang Learning Notes
• Programing Language: Unicode Math Symbols in Function Name and Operator
• Fortress Programing Language and Unicode
• What is Function, What is Operator?
• Programing Language Design: Why You Need Operators

;; x → x²
;; 2 ↦ 4
;; α β γ
;; λ

(defun xtest (mystr)
  "inline doc. doc string.
for example, see `switch-to-buffer'.

“matching pairs”

for example, see `switch-to-buffer'.

This function takes an arg MYSTR.
MYSTR must contain a substring, delimited by single quote.
for example, if the arg give in
\"some 'thing' here\"

 “curly quote”
 \"curly quote\"

\"some \='thing\=' here\"

it returns \"thing\"
"
  (interactive)
    (message "mystr %s" mystr))

"why can't the parser auto detect  "nested" quotes."
"why can't the parser auto detect"
nested
"quotes."