Re: [q-lang-users] unicode support

[John.Cowan <jc...@re...>]

Albert Graef scripsit:

> now that unicode support for Q's string data type is nearing completion, 
> there's one more question I'd like to discuss: Should we support unicode 
> in identifiers and operator symbols, too? I've seen Lisp dialects which 
> allow this, but is this a desirable or even necessary feature?

IMO yes.  I'm told that one of the reasons for the success of Java in Japan
has been the ability to write code whose identifiers are in Japanese: this
makes code much easier to maintain when the human-apparent semantics are
not in a foreign language.

Furthermore, allowing the various math symbols of Unicode will allow
Q programs of a mathematical nature to have more natural and expected
operators.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jc...@re...
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