Re: Could Lua itself become UTF8-aware?

[Gé Weijers <ge@...>]

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 12:12 PM, Soni L. <fakedme@gmail.com> wrote:

Beautiful! See, this is why we need 0x80-0xFF to be valid in identifiers. (Or emoji, but we're trying to keep things simple and adding full UTF-8 handling to Lua isn't simple.)

There are plenty of space characters above 0x7F, including the common em-space. Just making everything above 0x7f a letter would be utterly confusing.

function <invisible space> ()

 print("hello, world")

end

<invisible space> ()

We could start an "obfuscated Lua" contest...

 

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