On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:21 AM Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote:

> It's interesting that the egalitarian wish to allow use of native
> "alphabetics" has turned out to be such a viper's nest.
>

Indeed.

However, is there no way to restrict identifiers at least to the alphabets
of natural languages? Maybe it wouldn’t help much, but does anyone need to
use letter-like symbols designed for math expressions? I would say maybe,
but certainly not have them auto-converted to the “normal” letter?

For that matter, why have any auto-conversion all?

The answer may be that it’s too late to change now, but I don’t think I’ve
seen a compelling (or any?) use case for that conversion.

-CHB


Particular thanks to Stephen J. Turnbull for his thoughtful and
> well-informed contribution above.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steve
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