Find better new symbol for `;` (relational composition)
jamesmckinna opened this issue · comments
Responding to my query on #2301 , @Taneb wrote:
`;` is (according to agda-mode's "Information about the character at point" tool) a Greek question mark, which is written with `\;`, but there's a dozen characters with that and it's the 11th in the list.
I don't think we should be using that character, it's identical to the semicolon graphically (it's even normalized to the semicolon by Unicode) and bound to cause confusion. But I don't have a suggestion for what to use instead. EDIT: `⨾` (first in the list of `\;` but also \z;`) is "Z NOTATION RELATION COMPOSITION" per the Unicode standard. So it's at least semantically appropriate
Originally posted by @Taneb in #2301 (comment)
I too had queried that info, finding that the symbol is written with \;
, but not as far as finding it's the 11th in the list.
I would prefer to use the symbol which exhibits REL
as the prototypical bicategory, namely