Updating D beyond Unicode 2.0
Dennis
dkorpel at gmail.com
Mon Sep 24 11:59:40 UTC 2018
On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 10:36:50 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> Given that the typical keyboard has none of those characters,
> maintaining code that used any of them would be a royal pain.
Note that I'm not trying to argue either way, it's just that I
used to think of Walter's stance on D and Unicode as:
"D would fully embrace Unicode if only editors/debuggers etc.
would embrace it too"
But now I read:
> D supports Unicode in identifiers because C and C++ do, and we
> want to be able to interoperate with them."
So I wonder what changed. I guess it's mostly answered in the
first reply:
> When I originally started with D, I thought non-ASCII
> identifiers with Unicode was a good idea. I've since slowly
> become less and less enthusiastic about it.
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