ℙ𝕖𝕡 🙴 ℕ𝕠𝕞

If you can use a boomerang, then don't use a bow and arrow. If you can use a stick, then dont use a boomerang. Australian wisdom

ideas for the ℙ𝕖𝕡/ℕ𝕠𝕞 system

A document of ideas of the ℙ𝕖𝕡 🙵 ℕ𝕠𝕞 system that may never be implemented. Often I find that new commands aren't necessary after all.

• add an 'eprint' command that prints the workspace to stderr not stdout. This can be used for warnings etc.
• substitute a L^AT_EX ampersand for a normal one
• some randomisation for nom. 🙵 ampersand
• archaic words
• 'getx;' command that appends the tapecell to the workspace the number of times that is in the accumulator This can be sort of emulated with eg:

  
  
       count; replace "2" "..";
       replace "3" "...";
       replace "4" "....";
       replace "." "abc ";
      

• sublists starting with items --
• empty item

unicode and reading

Unicode doesn't actually define what is a 'character', instead it uses code points and combining marks (diacritics, underlines, etc). So the question of what the read command should do is a bit tricky. Should it read a byte, or a (utf8) code point or a grapheme cluster (the series of codepoints and combining marks that makes up a single visible character) ? Usually the answer is the last: A grapheme cluster, but not always.

So the read command could have several modes, and it could even read the data as a byte and treat it as 'binary'.