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

[Mauro Iazzi <mauro.iazzi@...>]

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.
>
> Interesting idea. What's the catch, if there is one ?

And conversely, what is the advantage? ;)

The only language I know that is doing this is Falcon (
http://falconpl.org/ ). If there are stats for how many people use
this feature it would be interesting.

mauro