Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers would not be very difficult to do in

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 12:17, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: too. So if somebody implements non ASCII identifiers because he needs a second source Delphi compiler it will be merged because the addition does not break existing code. I assume utf-8 identifiers

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Martin said: Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later become a problem half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...) Still shorter than what is allowed. And

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 24/12/12 11:22, Martin wrote: half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...) As Marco said, the list will be smaller than the allowed list. Also the Unicode specification defines blocks or categories for code

Re: Non-ASCII identifiers (was: Re: [fpc-devel] Forwarded message about FPC status)

2012-12-24 Thread Martin
On 24/12/2012 13:05, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Martin said: Hm that makes it easy to have an incomplete list, that could later become a problem half-width spaces etc..., control chars (RTL/LTR...), currently unused codepoints (that could become anything in future...)