On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 23:17:42 UTC, Seb wrote:
A: Wait. Using emojis as identifiers is not a good idea? B: Yes. A: But the cool kids are doing it:
The C11 spec says that emoji should be allowed in identifiers (ISO publication N1570 page 504/522), so it's not just the cool kids.
I'm not in favor of emoji in identifiers.
In all seriousness I hate it when someone thought its funny to use the lambda symbol as an identifier and I have to copy that symbol whenever I want to use it because there's no convenient way to type it.
It's supported because λ is a letter in a language spoken by thirteen million people. I mean, would you want to have to name a variable "lumиnosиty" because someone got annoyed at people using "i" as a variable name?
