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

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 17:30:03 +0800
Jacques Chester <jacques@chester.id.au> wrote:

> On 05/10/2009, at 5:19 PM, Ico wrote:
> > Interesting idea. What's the catch, if there is one ?  
> 
> Unicode contains a lot of characters which are distinct
> but visually identical or difficult to distinguish. This
> means, for instance, that you could have two different
> variables with the "same" name.

You can always shoot yourself in the foot.  Like when somebody chooses
a font where i and l are indistinguishable :)

B.