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

[Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>]

2009/10/5 Mauro Iazzi <mauro.iazzi@gmail.com>:
> 2009/10/5 Ico <lua@zevv.nl>:
>>
>> * On 2009-10-05 David Given <dg@cowlark.com> wrote  :
>>
>>> 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? ;)

Being able to use accented letters or even non-roman characters would
be a useful tool to teach programming to people not speaking english.
Ideally you would need to translate keywords, libraries and built-in
error messages, but given Lua's size that seems reasonnable to do.

> 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
>