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- Subject: Re: Would lua support varaible name with non-ascii characters?
- From: Sean Conner <sean@...>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:47:12 -0400
It was thus said that the Great Lorenzo Donati once stated:
> Imagine: use a ~1GB application to write a ~100 lines script (~1kB
> source code) of a language whose implementation is ~1MB. That's
> minimalism! :-)
There are people who already do that (I'm looking at you, Electron! [1])
> Moreover, the same editors will have to be also hex-editors (*Urgh!*),
> because we will need the ability to look at the actual encoding of
> glyphs to discriminate those visually-ambiguous identifiers (something
> that is so easy in ASCII, e.g. by switching to a monospaced font).
I think it would be easy enough to have an editor that just highlights
Unicode characters outside the range of 0x20 - 0x7E.
-spc (Hmmm ... I may have to look into modifying my editor to do just that
... )
[1] https://electronjs.org/