Re: [q-lang-users] More Unicode queries.

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> Will these be allowed in all places (identifiers as well as strings)?
> I would say yes: def \π = 3.141592653

I would say no, as they go against readability. Just have a look at
ASCII'ified Fortress code; I think that it looks horrible.

In Q, a notation like this really looks more like a conglomerate of
operators and identifiers at first glance. Therefore, if you want
Unicode letters in identifiers, I think it's better to just use a
Unicode-capable editor and type them "as is".

Character escapes in strings are a different kind of thing, however.
I've put the entity character escapes for strings on my TODO list for
the next release.

Cheers,
Albert

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