Uniform Function Call Syntax?

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Mar 7 10:45:34 PST 2016


On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 18:35:44 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
> The partial integral symbol is not a letter or digit under any 
> circumstances. It is a mathematical symbol. Identifiers cannot 
> contain mathematical symbols in D or C99 or even C#.

Well, but that argument is kinda bogus. Scientists have 
"invented" their own notation using whatever symbols (characters) 
they had access to since forever. It's not like they will stop 
just because language designers are reactionary. :-)

There are lots of interesting letters from various languages that 
can be used, so prohibiting access to the proper symbols is kinda 
pointless. The end result is that people just pick inappropriate 
characters instead.



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