Re: UTF-8 identifiers [was: Re: Lua t-shirts]

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

2009/10/5 Ico <lua@zevv.nl>:
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> * On 2009-10-05 David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote  :
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>> I'm still pushing for my proposal to allow all characters with codes
>> in the range 128-255 to be considered valid in names.  This would
>> allow identifiers contain UTF-8 sequences.
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> Interesting idea. What's the catch, if there is one ?
>

I don't know of one, I'm also in favour of this, though I mainly just
want some extra characters such as '!' that Ruby has (I've never
written a line of Ruby, so I'm envious) for marking methods which
mutate an object, and _ is over-used in Lua :)

Matthew