Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

aliak something at something.com
Thu Sep 27 16:34:37 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 13:59:48 UTC, Shachar Shemesh 
wrote:
> On 27/09/18 16:38, aliak wrote:
>> The point was that being able to use non-English in code is 
>> demonstrably both helpful and useful to people. Norwegian 
>> happens to be easily anglicize-able. I've already linked to 
>> non ascii code versions in a previous post if you want that 
>> too.
>
> If you wish to make a point about something irrelevant to the 
> discussion, that's fine. It is, however, irrelevant, mostly 
> because it is uncontested.
>
> This thread is about the use of non-English in *identifiers*. 
> This thread is not about comments. It is not about literals 
> (i.e. - strings). Only about identifiers (function names, 
> variable names etc.).
>
> If you have real world examples of those, that would be both 
> interesting and relevant.
>
> Shachar

English doesn't mean ascii. You can write non-English in ascii, 
which you would've noticed if you'd opened the link, which had 
identifiers in Norwegian (which is not English).

And again, I've already posted a link that shows non-ascii 
identifiers. I'll paste it again here incase you don't want to 
read the thread:

https://speakerdeck.com/codelynx/programming-swift-in-japanese


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