Re: Allow UTF8 value names in lua?

[Gabriel Bertilson <arboreous.philologist@...>]

Just to clarify, my UTF-8 identifiers patch does not allow emojis as
identifiers, only word-like sequences. For instance, in the REPL:

> 💩 = 10
stdin:1: disallowed code point in identifier near '💩'

— Gabriel


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:22 PM Egor Skriptunoff
<egor.skriptunoff@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:45 AM bil til wrote:
>>
>> ... just your demo code looks very "c-like" ... are you sure that this is
>> luaJIT ...
>
>
> Of course, this is NOT a Lua code.
> UTF-8 identifiers is not a Lua-specific feature; almost any programming language could be "emojificated".
> The picture is just an illustration (taken from another language) of what we would have to be ready for  :-)