On Monday, 22 August 2016 at 10:26:35 UTC, Cauterite wrote:
On Monday, 22 August 2016 at 07:58:50 UTC, Andrew wrote:
Note that changing isAlpha() can potentially break any D code
with unicode in its identifiers, because the DMD frontend uses
isAlpha() to determine which characters are allowed in
identifiers.
Well, the Unicode consortium is famous for having backward
compatibility as a priority (in fact the Unicode standard has
many strange things that are conceptually wrong but are needed to
maintain compatibility).
So, updating the std.uni methods should not break anything, but
at most allow more inputs to be accepted. So I think that the
possibility of updating std.uni should be taken into account and
further investigated, to see if it's doable.
By the way, the core team is very busy so if Andrew (the OP)
wants to make a PR himself, it would be welcome.
