Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0

sarn sarn at theartofmachinery.com
Fri Sep 28 02:23:32 UTC 2018


On Thursday, 27 September 2018 at 16:34:37 UTC, aliak wrote:
> 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

Shachar seems to be aiming for an internet high score by shooting 
down threads without reading them.  You have better things to do.
http://www.paulgraham.com/vb.html


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