[erlang-questions] literal character syntax

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On Monday 19 May 2014 17:50:11 Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> All that Unicode has done for us here is to make ($ )
> *more* dangerous than it already was.  (And this is without
> considering the 145 'Cf' characters in Unicode 6.3, amongst
> which TAB and LF may be found.  The thought of someone
> innocently copying a "character" from a file and dropping
> it in just after a $ sign without realising that the "character"
> is a sequence beginning with a language tag or a digit shape
> selector does *not* appeal.)

Thank you for the thorough response. It appears this will eventually be made 
into a warning not a language rule. Leaving it unaddressed would have left 
leave some weird, dangerous corner cases for human plain-text code readers 
(which is probably most of us at the moment) as illustrated by your example 
above.

This will leave those who occasionally use things like double-width spaces in 
code free to do so (not an uncommon practice in CJK-target programs; hopefully 
with a comment to explain what it is!) while clearly notifying anyone building 
such a project of its presence.