Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

Seb seb at wilzba.ch
Fri Sep 21 23:17:42 UTC 2018


On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 23:00:45 UTC, Erik van Velzen 
wrote:
> Agreed with Walter.
>
> I'm all on board with i18n but I see no need for non-ascii 
> identifiers.
>
> Even identifiers with a non-latin origin are usually written in 
> the latin script.
>
> As for real-world usage I've seen Cyrillic identifiers a few 
> times in PHP.

A: Wait. Using emojis as identifiers is not a good idea?
B: Yes.
A: But the cool kids are doing it:

https://codepen.io/andresgalante/pen/jbGqXj

In all seriousness I hate it when someone thought its funny to 
use the lambda symbol as an identifier and I have to copy that 
symbol whenever I want to use it because there's no convenient 
way to type it.
(This is already supported in D.)


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