Re: Would lua support varaible name with non-ascii characters?

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 23/10/2018 09:10, Thomas Jericke wrote:
> Am 22.10.2018 um 19:30 schrieb Tim Hill:
> > > On Oct 16, 2018, at 6:18 AM, Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com
> > > <mailto:via.usov@gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 2:58 PM Lorenzo Donati
> > > <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it <mailto:lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Now, imagine an identifier like B10010100, where each individual
> > > "character" is in fact a different "version" of a "0" or a "1".
> > > Nightmare!
> > >
> > > Especially in Lua, which happily treats any unknown identifier as a
> > > valid global variable.
> > >
> > > oоοｏ𝖔
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > V.
> >
> > +1 .. I realize I’m a native English speaker and so biased, but it
> > seems to me the benefits of Unicode identifiers are far outweighed by
> > the problems created.
> >
> > —Tim
> What problem can be so bad outweighting the benefit of using 🤮
> (U+1F92E) as an identifier?

It could be useful in Lua error messages, though. ;-)

That would clearly be a nice substitute for the "assertion error" 
message. :-D



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> Thomas