Re: Are there any plans for more allowed symbol characters?

2010-03-02 Thread Mark Tomko
I agree with you in principle, but I suspect that the answer is deliberately delegated to Java's definition of letter or number. Mark On Mar 2, 3:17 am, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 March 2010 00:24, Joost jo...@zeekat.nl wrote: On 1 mrt, 23:02, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com

Re: Are there any plans for more allowed symbol characters?

2010-03-02 Thread Sean Devlin
While certainly legal unicode, it's a PITA with most western keyboards. I don't recommend straying far from ASCII-128 w/o a great, great, reason. Of course, someone from the east may disagree. On Mar 1, 5:24 pm, Joost jo...@zeekat.nl wrote: On 1 mrt, 23:02, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com

Are there any plans for more allowed symbol characters?

2010-03-01 Thread joshua-choi
According to http://clojure.org/reader, “Symbols begin with a non- numeric character and can contain alphanumeric characters and *, +, !, -, _, and ? (other characters will be allowed eventually, but not all macro characters have been determined).” Are there any plans of allowing any more symbol

Re: Are there any plans for more allowed symbol characters?

2010-03-01 Thread Michael Wood
On 1 March 2010 23:23, joshua-choi rbysam...@gmail.com wrote: According to http://clojure.org/reader, Symbols begin with a non- numeric character and can contain alphanumeric characters and *, +, !, -, _, and ? (other characters will be allowed eventually, but not all macro characters have

Re: Are there any plans for more allowed symbol characters?

2010-03-01 Thread Joost
On 1 mrt, 23:02, Michael Wood esiot...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if the following's allowed, but it works: user= (def ð Math/PI) #'user/ð user= ð 3.141592653589793 Sine the JVM considers all strings to be 16-bit unicode, I would expect all the usual java/unicode number/letter types to