On Jan 27, 2016, at 2:49 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2016, at 6:38 AM, Dave wrote: > >> >>>> >>>>> I'm going to step out on a limb and since Xcode has supported editing in >>>>> UTF-8 and 16, that we look into those character sets and pick some >>>>> symbols that accurately represent public, protected and private. >>>> >>>> Now you’re pulling our legs, right Alex? >>> >>> Yeah, I know. It's really non conventional, buuut… I've started using some >>> of the characters such as the block and non breaking line to make better >>> formatting for comments and logging. >> >> Wow Man, you *do* like living on the wild-side. I hope it doesn’t come back >> to bite you! > > Wise words. > > I base this attempt on a fair amount of crash test dummies who have risked > this before me and constantly asking questions. Is the character set > supported by Xcode? By Git? > > The popups in the right side of Inspector Panel with a setting for Text > Encoding and the amount of people who I've seen code in Japanese with the > UTF-16 encoding justified me asking this. > > But for those crazy Swift kids who are using smilies in variable names, I'm > going to let them drive the crash test vehicle. > >>> Other people who are on the Swift side of things are even using smilies and >>> emoticons in their code. Or so they claim. That scares me. >> >> I’m more of a if its not in the ASCII set it ain’t Source Code brigade! lol
Ahh, just a little testing shows that well, if it’s not ASCII, it’s not going to work, period. “Non-ASCII characters are not allowed outside of literals and identifiers" They do work fine for logging and in comments though. myConfigurableOption = @"███████████████"; // 👈 ◄ ⬅︎ someSillyString = @"⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯"; _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
