Oh, I don't mean 'funny' in a derogatory way. Some of them are beautiful and I find the languages that use them, fascinating grammar and etymology and differences in grammar. For me language is a general category of much interest, and programming very specific and use-targeted, but for sure, many computer languages are affected by the languages of its designers and some even are named to signify that, such as the syntax RPN, which is closely related to Lisp's syntax.
The issue about capitalisation and equivalence of symbols would make the use of languages without capitalisation difficult for sure. It's great to see that someone is actually caring enough about it to facilitate it. Go idiom prescribes certain policies with naming - I'd guess that if those rules were tightened up a bit more, and tools built to lint them, that fully translating into another script (even potentially rtl) would be a lot easier than the good old days when the compiler only recognised ascii. On Friday, 3 May 2019 19:30:33 UTC+2, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:25 AM Louki Sumirniy > <louki.sumi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#General_Category_property > > > > This section in the wp entry lists these categories. > > > > So, in Go, actually, all identifiers can be in practically any language. > Even many of those funny african scripts and west asian languages! > > Yes. Note that those scripts are not funny for the people who use > them every day, they are just normal writing. > > It gets a little more complicated when discussing which identifiers > are visible in other packages. See https://golang.org/issue/5763 and > https://golang.org/issue/22188. Separately, but related to this > general topic, see also https://golang.org/issue/20706 and > https://golang.org/issue/27896. > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
