19 Oct
2003
19 Oct
'03
6:39 p.m.
Tony wrote:
The caret and up-arrow characters look sufficiently
similar that this
change makes little difference for the sort of applications where you'd
use an ASR33 these days (e.g. for the raise-to-power function in BASIC).
The caret and uparrow, maybe. But trying to read Smalltalk code or
the HP-41C ROM source code on a system that uses modern ASCII with
the underscore instead of the backarrow really sucks. The Unicode
mapping I suggested is *much* better for that, IMNSHO.
Eric