OpenEuphoria

Re: Accented characters in identifiers

• Posted by ken mortenson <kenneth_john at yaho?.co?> May 27, 2008
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Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> I do not want to discriminate at all...

"Look! They are one people and there is one language for them all...  Why
now, there is NOTHING that they may have in mind that will be unattainable
for them"

You may recognize this quote from the story of Babel.  The process of
thinking IS discriminating (whatever your native language, call me a bigot.)

Unicode is useful for data, not for code.  Otherwise, why not have the
languages keywords come in mutliple translations?  It's because of the
principle in that quote above.  Do you want things to be attainable?

Sometimes you have to limit yourself to make great results.  It would be
perfectly logical to say, "Let's do all our code in Unicode for one day
we might want to bring out different language versions of our compiler."

Except my keyboard expects me to write in English even iF other language
keyboards are available.  You can do a lot with 127 characters.  It's not
a valid assumption that you can do a lot more with 65,365 or so.

I shudder to think of the finely crafted Euphoria language trying to
become all things to all people.  It will never achieve greatness if
that's the road taken.  Keep in mind I say that while also on a quest
for the 'one true language.'  Perhaps we should code in hebrew?