John Haugeland

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One problem with generators for symbols is that they are inherently leaky - generating a symbol consumes space irrecoverably Having a very large set of symbols generated can bring v8...

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@daveycakes - seems to be a good notation to me sorry it took me so long to notice and respond to this

I apologize. That isn't what I meant. ``` ENTITY_TABLE = [ [913, 'Alpha'], [914, 'Beta'], [915, 'Gamma'], ``` ... ``` [213, 'Otilde'], [214, 'Ouml'], [215, 'times'], ``` Please pretend for...

> There are a few. | Name | Symbol | Codepoint | | --- | --- | --- | | ncongdot | ⩭̸ | U+2A6D (10861), U+0338 (824) | |...

> Edit: Sorry, I just looked at the PR and not at the original issue - there you also listed entities with two codepoints. Supporting those entails revamping the entity...

If you're curious, the method for producing this patch was: 1. Using `firefox`, control-select to pull the appropriate columns out of [this table](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references), after sorting on `standard` 2. Postprocess with...

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