Georg Wrede wrote:
(You know, a few years ago we had a major conversation here about whether non-ASCII variable names should be accepted in D. The end result is, yes. (I just tried it.) Now, how can an international team cowork on a project where variable names are written so the other folks can't even type them with their keyboards???
On the other hand, if you have a Chinese development team, why should they be limited to ASCII variable names? It doesn't make sense for them.
-- All very nice, but no cigar. That's about as smart as letting people define *unlimited* length variable names!)
I recently dealt with a programming language that specified a limit of 63 characters for identifier names. This wouldn't have been a significant problem, except that I was generating code automatically, and some of my identifiers were over 90 characters. Identifier length limits are evil, unless they're ridiculously large (C#, I think, limits identifiers to 4096 characters).
