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

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Saturday, April 26, 2014, Tom N Harris <telliamed@whoopdedo.org> wrote:
> On Saturday, April 26, 2014 06:40:55 PM Rena wrote:
> > One thing I've always been curious about is if some design patterns would
> > be more popular in languages which are not developed by English speakers.
> > E.g. Latin with its many verb forms, or Japanese with its
> > subject-object-verb order (which looks a lot like postfix notation vs
> > English's infix).
>
> I'd be more curious to see what a programming language would look like if it
> inherited the Japanese honor system? Can you imagine having to reference a
> variable based on its hierarchical importance in the program relative to the
> calling function?
>
> Thankfully, the inventor of Ruby wasn't inspired by that part of his native
> tongue.
>
> --
> tom <telliamed@whoopdedo.org>

You have it wrong! All statements would be extremely boastful and end with multiple exclamation points. Conditionals would have a syntax like, "What??? Are you nil!!!??!? Then I will over power you with my value!!! If you wish to challenge me, then I will manipulate the values at your references so thoroughly, that your ancestors will feel your shame!!!"

-Andrew