Re: Proposal: allow @, $, !, and ? in Lua identifiers

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-25 14:51 GMT+02:00 Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com>:

>> I actually have my personal build in which lctype.c is modified
>> to do what I thought I needed at the time. It's nice. One can have
>> UTF-8 names, such as APL characters, astrological symbols,
>> Hebrew letters.
>
> I forget what type of argument it's called when one speculates to the
> imaginable worst of a proposal to justify not changing anything, I
> could swear I read the term in a book recently :(  It's like when
> 'people' say legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to marrying
> animals, yes?

Hey! I really have such a build. You can have one too.

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