Re: Would lua support varaible name with non-ascii characters?

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Oct 16, 2018, at 6:18 AM, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it> wrote:

> Now, imagine an identifier like B10010100, where each individual "character" is in fact a different "version" of a "0" or a "1". Nightmare!

Especially in Lua, which happily treats any unknown identifier as a valid global variable.

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Cheers,

V.

+1 .. I realize I’m a native English speaker and so biased, but it seems to me the benefits of Unicode identifiers are far outweighed by the problems created.

—Tim