Larry wrote: > Yes, you can use anything with the letter or number property in > identifiers, plus you can use ideographs. As it happens, the Kanji > for "one" and "two" come in the right order, but don't try to extend > that to "three".
Of course, exactly the same thing is true for the English ideographs: "one" and "two" sort fine, but "three" does not. :-) >> I am, of course, overstating the case when I say that anyone who uses > anything other than $^a and $^b is insane. Any conventional pair will > do, as long as they're known to order correctly, and serve as "good" > identifiers. That's the only reason we didn't restrict curried > parameters to single letters. (Damian can vouch for the fact that I > seriously proposed doing so somewhere out in the middle of the > Atlantic.) It's true. But I blame the proximity of the Bermuda triangle for that momentary aberration. ;-) Damian
