From: "Daniel Bünzli" <daniel.buenzli@erratique.ch>
To: List caml-list <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Should a /\ operator be possible?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:54:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2B71D022-538D-45CB-BCF9-B48A63187DD4@erratique.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481ADD86.3000802@frisch.fr>
The unicode standard dicusses a syntax for identifiers here [1]. Note
that determining if two identifiers are equal needs to invoke the
unicode normalization machinery, it is not just a matter of knowing
what is a letter and a symbol. That being said, I really don't see
unicode identifiers as a must have feature, au contraire.
Regarding the use of math symbols, I think Alain is right, it should
be addressed as a presentation issue. Actually that's the way Fortress
[3] handles it, as a rendering issue.
Speaking of using UTF-8 in source files, it was recently pointed out
to me that this is not a problem as long as you use only ASCII
identifiers. The advantage is that you can have UTF-8 string literals
in your source code.
Best,
Daniel
[1] http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/
[2] http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/Publications/fortress.1.0.pdf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 11:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-01 19:41 Richard Jones
2008-05-01 21:20 ` [Caml-list] " Richard Jones
2008-05-01 21:36 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-05-02 7:44 ` Gordon Henriksen
2008-05-02 6:43 ` Vincent Hanquez
2008-05-02 8:05 ` David Teller
2008-05-02 8:26 ` Richard Jones
2008-05-02 9:23 ` Alain Frisch
2008-05-02 11:54 ` Daniel Bünzli [this message]
2008-05-05 6:36 ` Maxence Guesdon
2008-05-02 14:27 ` Robert Fischer
2008-05-02 17:02 ` Yann Régis-Gianas
2008-05-02 15:11 ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2008-05-02 15:25 ` Alain Frisch
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