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

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

2014-04-28 12:56 GMT+02:00 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We're in the Unicode/UTF8 era now. No reason why we can't have ≤,≥, ←and →
>> for <=, >=, << and >> too. It's only a tiny patch to llex.c and if you ever need
>> to send your program to someone else, it's trivial to translate.
>
> Fair enough, but then we have the keyboard problem. In my editor
> environment I've already got all the ctrl-<key> mappings assigned, →
> is not going to be a single keystroke anyway.

It's LeftAlt-[ on mine. You get one guess for what is ←.

I'll admit to being biased: I have all the APL characters available
on LeftAlt.