On Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 10:12:11 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
Question Walter (or Andrei): Would it be terrible to have
lower characters as part of the identifier string? I'm
referring to characters under 32 (control characters,
especially the \r, \n and \t).
That would be my question, too. What is the allowed alphabet?
Control characters might break output of debuggers, and spaces
would also look confusing. So I guess everything in the range
(95 symbols)?
Actually if compressed text (which uses symbols 128-155) are
okay, then that gives us closer to 223 symbols to work with, not
95.
Curiously the extra 95 symbols actually is just enough to keep
compression up and bring speed to about 37% speed gain, with it
looks like no disadvantages. Then again I still need a larger set
to test things on, but it's very promising!
