On 9/15/20 8:10 PM, James Blachly wrote:
On 9/15/20 10:59 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
Thanks to Paul, Jon, Dominikus and H.S. for thoughtful responses.
What will it take (i.e. order of difficulty) to get this fixed --
will merely a bug report (and PR, not sure if I can tackle or not) do
it, or will this require more in-depth discussion with compiler
maintainers?
I'm thinking your issue will not be fixed (just like we don't allow
$abc to be an identifier). But the spec can be fixed to refer to the
correct standards.
Steve: It sounds as if the spec is correct but the glyph (codepoint?)
range is outdated. If this is the case, it would be a worthwhile update.
Do you really think it would be rejected out of hand?
I don't really know the answer, as I'm not a unicode expert.
Someone should verify that the character you want to use for a symbol
name is actually considered a letter or not. Using phobos to prove this
is kind of self-defeating, as I'm pretty sure it would be in league with
DMD if there is a bug.
But if it's not a letter, then it would take more than just updating the
range. It would be a change in the philosophy of what constitutes an
identifier name.
-Steve
