[erlang-questions] A proposal for Unicode variable and atom names in Erlang.

Yurii Rashkovskii yrashk@REDACTED
Mon Oct 22 12:45:13 CEST 2012


Also, consider this: there are characters that look the same but encoded 
differently. We don't need to go far: the colon character. Lets suppose 
Erlang's "native" colon is U+003A. Now, there is at least three characters 
that look very similar: U+A789, U+2236, U+05C3. Now you can produce a code 
that will confuse the hell out of you. Which colon is the right colon? 

On Monday, October 22, 2012 3:36:20 AM UTC-7, Loïc Hoguin wrote:
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> On 10/22/2012 08:00 AM, Anthony Ramine wrote:
> > Also non-latin users who don't know English should be able to use
> > atoms and variables they understand.
>
> Can't stress this enough.
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