[q-lang-users] Q 7.2 RC1 Issue 2: Notation

[John C. <co...@cc...>]

I'm not happy with "over" as the notation for rational numbers.
In particular, "1 over 5+2 over 3" looks totally wrong for 1/5 + 2/3;
the visual grouping is hopelessly broken.  I realize that we can't use
"/" for this purpose, but can't we use another symbol operator?

I would propose "|", which is visually close to "/" and is used in the
"units" program for the same purpose.  A non-ASCII alternative would be ÷
(division sign).  These would be very minor changes to the lexer.

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