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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/29/19 7:02 PM, Lev Minkovsky
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">First is the ↑
          character (Alt-24 with NumLock on). We had a discussion a
          while back with Bjarne and a few other C++ luminaries in
          regards to a possible exponentiation operator. None of the
          more conventional alternatives appeared to be a good
          candidate, while ↑ is a symbol used for that purpose by Donald
          Knuth, see
          <a
            href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s_up-arrow_notation</a>,
          and would be excellent for readability. Perhaps we can add it
          at some point to the basic character set. I am not at all
          worried about its absence on the keyboard, math folks will
          quickly get used to Alt-24. <o:p>
          </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">I would imagine
          the right approach for this to happen is to ask ourselves:
          what is are the specific characters that we wish were in the
          basic character set? My initial list would be: $,@,↑,• or
          <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;color:#222222;background:white">·,÷
          </span>. $ is already in Microsoft basic character set, see <a
href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/character-sets?view=vs-2019"
            moz-do-not-send="true">
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/cpp/character-sets?view=vs-2019</a>,
          so perhaps this would be a low-hanging fruit. The middle dot
          symbol and the obelus could be used as an alternative
          multiplication and division operators. Swift already has
          user-defined operators; if we ever get them, it would be
          awesome to have something like<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            operator ·(</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> m,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> n)
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">return</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> (</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">)m
            * (</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">long</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">)n;
            }</span></p>
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    <p>Extending the basic source character set is something that is on
      my mind.  My first priority would be to get '@' added so that
      email address can be used in portable programs :).  Next up would
      be '$'.  These two are ubiquitous, would not be problematic in
      practice (they are present in ASCII and common EBCDIC code pages),
      and we could introduce digraphs for them.</p>
    <p>Characters like ↑ are more problematic since they effectively
      require a Unicode encoding (we could, of course, specify digraphs
      for it as well).  I think the battle for the first non-ASCII
      character in the basic source character set will be hard (I'm not
      sure I want to take it on).  I can only imagine the number of
      papers that will come afterward proposing new operators for all
      kinds of interesting purposes!  We may want to consider a core
      language facility for defining new operators; that would enable
      adding operators without extending the basic source character set.<br>
    </p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">The second, far
          more impactful idea would be to unicodize the entire language
          and let the users use keywords in their national languages.
          Programmers outside USA (surprise, surprise) often think in
          their native languages and often prefer to write comments in
          them. For example, I know that the SAP codebase is full of
          comments in German. A source file is a specialized text, and
          every language switch is a disorienting experience, especially
          if these languages are not related. Algol 68 designers already
          understood this and translated the language into Russian,
          German, French, Bulgarian, Chinese and Japanese, including of
          course the keywords. This could facilitate teaching/studying
          the language as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;padding:0in">As an
            illustration, let us consider 3 variants of Hello-World,
            first the canonic version with comments, second with the
            same comments in Russian and third a hypothetical Hello
            world/<span lang="RU">Привет</span><span lang="RU">
            </span><span lang="RU">мир</span> in C++ with Russian
            keywords:<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">­­­­­­­­­­<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//This
            is needed for printf</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray">#include</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">&lt;stdio.h&gt;</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//Program
            entry</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            main()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//Let's
            greet the world</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
            printf(</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hello
            world!\n"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//Это
            требуется для printf</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray">#include</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">&lt;stdio.h&gt;</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green"
            lang="RU">//Вход в программу
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">main</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green"
            lang="RU">//Приветствуем мир</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">printf</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">(</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515"
            lang="RU">"Привет мир!\</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">n</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515"
            lang="RU">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
              lang="RU">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
              lang="RU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green"
            lang="RU">//Это требуется для печати</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">#включить &lt;стдвв.г&gt;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green"
            lang="RU">//Вход в программу
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">цел главная()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green"
            lang="RU">//Приветствуем мир</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">   печать(</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515"
            lang="RU">"Привет мир!\</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">n</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515"
            lang="RU">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU">);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"
            lang="RU"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I would imagine
            that for most if not all of you, the third example looks
            like gibberish. I can assure you that, for young future
            programmers from the countries where English isn’t widely
            spoken, the first Hello World looks just as gibberishly.
            Some of them may even be reluctant to enter a career where
            they would have to deal with pages and pages of such stuff
            on a daily basis.
          </span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    I've had this though as well.  The obvious down side is that it
    could make sharing code more difficult.  But, translation would be
    relatively easy as well, so perhaps not a problem in practice.  We
    don't have a lot of keywords, so I'm not sure how impactful this is;
    and I lack the non-native language experience to draw on.  Thanks
    for the Algol 68 reference; I wasn't aware of this prior experience!
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:BL0PR11MB313906C2CCDB412EAE55E2DCC9DD0@BL0PR11MB3139.namprd11.prod.outlook.com">
      <div class="WordSection1">
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in">              
            Finally, I wanted to show you a couple of additional
            “hello-world”s. The first is valid C++ that stress-tests the
            system it runs on by using English, Russian, Georgian  and
            Chinese words in the same sentence:<o:p></o:p></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:gray">#include</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">&lt;stdio.h&gt;</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">main()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
            printf(</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">u8"Hello-привет-</span><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Sylfaen&quot;,serif;color:#A31515">გამარჯობა</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">-</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;MS
            Gothic&quot;;color:#A31515">你好</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">,
            world!\n"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
        </div>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>Note that passing a u8 string literal to printf is mojibake
      unless the execution encoding happens to be UTF-8.  And, of
      course, this won't compile in C++20.<br>
    </p>
    <blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:BL0PR11MB313906C2CCDB412EAE55E2DCC9DD0@BL0PR11MB3139.namprd11.prod.outlook.com">
      <div class="WordSection1">
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="color:black">The second is something I put together
              as a 21 century version of Hello world. Alas, only a very
              small fraction of it is now well-formed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">/*</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">The
            first program to write is the same for all languages:</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">Print
            the words</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">hello,
            world</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">#include
            &lt;stdio.h&gt;</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">int
            main()</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">{</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">printf("hello,
            world\n");</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">}</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">*/</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">import</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            std.ui;    
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//future
            UI module</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">import</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            std.core;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">int</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            main()<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">{<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">static</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">
            std::map&lt;std::language_id_t, std::u8string&gt; hellos{
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//language_id_t
            comes from std.ui</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"English"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hello,
            world"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//a
            literal produces the right language type</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Chinese"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid, 
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;MS
            Gothic&quot;;color:#A31515">你好,世界</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hindi"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">नमस्ते</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">दुनिया</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Spanish"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hola
            Mundo"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"French"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Bonjour
            le monde"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Arabic"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Courier
            New&quot;;color:#A31515">مرحبا</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Courier
            New&quot;;color:#A31515">بالعالم</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Bengali"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ওহে</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">বিশ্ব</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Russian"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Привет,
            мир"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Portuguese"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Olá
            Mundo"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Indonesian"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Halo
            Dunia"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Urdu"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Courier
            New&quot;;color:#A31515">ہیلو،</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Courier
            New&quot;;color:#A31515">دنیا</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"German"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hallo
            Welt"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Japanese"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;MS
            Gothic&quot;;color:#A31515">こんにちは世界</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Swahili"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Salamu,
            Dunia"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Punjabi"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ਸਤਿ</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ਸ੍ਰੀ</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ਅਕਾਲ</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ਦੁਨਿਆ</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Telugu"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">హలో</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">,
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">ప్రపంచం</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Javanese"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Hello,
            donya"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Marathi"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">हॅलो</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">,
          </span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:&quot;Nirmala
            UI&quot;,sans-serif;color:#A31515">जग</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">      
            {
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Turkish"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid,
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"Selam
            Dünya"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"> },<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
            };<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//More
            than 75 % of the world population would be able to read and
            understand its greeting.</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
            std::post_notification ( 
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//this
            also comes from std.ui</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">     
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//
            if we can define variables in an if statement, why can't we
            in a tertiary operator?</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">     
            (std::optional&lt;std::u8string&gt; hello =
            hellos[std::get_language_id()])
          </span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:green">//get
            the default system language</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">     
            ? *hello<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">     
            : *hellos[</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#A31515">"English"</span><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">lid];<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">  
            );<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <div
          style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid
          windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in">
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black">}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"
            style="text-autospace:none;border:none;padding:0in"><span
              style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        </div>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
            style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
      </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p>For me, the most interesting part of this is the <tt>post_notification</tt>
      interface presumably targeting a post-terminal world :)<br>
    </p>
    <p>Tom.<br>
    </p>
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cite="mid:BL0PR11MB313906C2CCDB412EAE55E2DCC9DD0@BL0PR11MB3139.namprd11.prod.outlook.com">
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        <p class="MsoNormal">Thank you –<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">            Lev Minkovsky<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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