Re: Accented characters in identifiers
CChris wrote:
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> Currently, if you use characters in the 128-255 range in identifiers, you will
> get incongruous error messages, like "Result of a function must be assigned"
> because you used a รณ.
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> What do you think?
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Being a unicode (I should say any non-ascii) dummy, how would this affect people
reading and using code with such characters? I do not want to discriminate at
all, but will we create two divisions in the libraries and also code
contributions to Euphoria core? For instance, I know English and a tiny, tiny bit
of Spanish. I'm sure others know multiple languages but spoken languages just was
something I've never been interested in. If a library has come out that does some
very cool things but even it's function names use characters > 128 that I don't
even know how to type of my keyboard, let alone what they mean, I cannot use it.
Now, this is *obviously* bigger than I. I can understand if you are not a native
English speaking person you're probably clenching your fists and steam is rising
from your head but I am just trying to understand the impact. I mean no offense
or to say that all programmers should speak English and forget their native
tongue. I'm just trying to understand.
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Jeremy Cowgar
http://jeremy.cowgar.com
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