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Canonical pronunciation for each character is a wonderful thing, and I use it all the time to discuss code. If there's one thing other projects should steal fr

• ShamelessC 7y ago
  That actually does sound really cool. I guess we get close to that with names for operators e.g. Python's walrus operator. I can definitely see it being nice to have that sort of granularity.
• xg15 7y ago
  The pronunciations are no more exclusionary than learning Cyrillic, and the effort pays off. Oddly, I have never been required to learn Cyrillic to use any of many, many other programming languages out there.
  • Grue3 7y ago
    People who don't use Latin alphabet have been forced to learn it to use pretty much any programming language out there.
  • 1D843B67 7y ago
    > Oddly, I have never been required to learn Cyrillic to use any of many, many other programming languages out there. Conversely, people whose native language is written with the Cyrillic script are required to learn the Latin alphabet to use most programming languages.
• shpx 7y ago
  You can find the rest of the ASCII symbol names (there's 34 in total) here: https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-syntax/ https://urbit.org/docs/tutorials/hoon/hoon-syntax/