Re: [perl #64878] Greek letters in variable names do not work in Rakudo

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:32:05AM -0700, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> 
> <wayland> rakudo: my $βοο = "καλλω"; print $βοο;
> <p6eval> rakudo 0d5515: OUTPUT«error:imcc:syntax error, unexpected
> USTRINGC, expecting STRINGC ('unicode:"$\u03b2\u03bf\u03bf"') [...]
> * masak submits rakudobug

The problem seems to be that Parrot only supports ascii (or perhaps
latin-1) in lexical variable names.  I've filed the bug as
TT #575 -- when that bug is fixed this problem should go away also.

Thanks!

Pm