On 9/26/18 4:43 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
But expanding it seems of vanishingly little value. Note that each thing that gets added to D adds weight to it, and it needs to pull its weight. Nothing is free.
It may be the weight is already there in the form of unicode symbol support, just the range of the characters supported isn't good enough for some languages. It might be like replacing your refrigerator -- you get an upgrade, but it's not going to take up any more space because you get rid of the old one. I would like to see the PR before passing judgment on the heft of the change.
The value is simply in the consistency -- when some of the words for your language can be valid symbols but others can't, then it becomes a weird guessing game as to what is supported. It would be like saying all identifiers can have any letters except `q`. Sure, you can get around that, but it's weirdly exclusive.
I claim complete ignorance as to what is required, it hasn't been technically laid out what is at stake, and I'm not bilingual anyway. It could be true that I'm completely misunderstanding the positions of others.
-Steve
