On Tuesday, 28 May 2013 at 00:11:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/27/2013 4:28 PM, Hans W. Uhlig wrote:
On Monday, 27 May 2013 at 23:05:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've recently come to the opinion that that's a bad idea, and
D should not
support it.
Why do you think its a bad idea? It makes it such that code
can be in various
languages? Just lack of keyboard support?
Every time I've been to a programming shop in a foreign
country, the developers speak english at work and code in
english. Of course, that doesn't mean that everyone does, but
as far as I can tell the overwhelming bulk is done in english.
Naturally, full Unicode needs to be in strings and comments,
but symbol names? I don't see the point nor the utilty of it.
Supporting such is just pointless complexity to the language.
The most convincing case for usefulness I've seen was in java
where a class implemented a particular algorithm and so was named
after it. This name had a particular accented character and so
required unicode. Lots of algorithms are named after their
inventors and lots of these names contain unicode characters so
it's not that uncommon.
