Piers Cawley writes:
: Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: > Dan Sugalski writes:
: > : >Strict, but doesn't really matter. Nobody sane will use anything other
: > : >than $^a and $^b.
: > :
: > : Well.... Are we allowing non-latin characters in identifiers? There
: > : may be potential interesting ramifications with those. Kanji
: > : specifically, though I don't have details for them yet.
: >
: > Yes, you can use anything with the letter or number property in
: > identifiers, plus you can use ideographs. As it happens, the Kanji
: > for "one" and "two" come in the right order, but don't try to extend
: > that to "three".
:
: Aw... so no C<method empty? {...}> then? I've kind of got used to that
: while I've been playing with scheme and smalltalk.
You can do anything you like if you mess with the parser. Changing
the rules for recognizing an identifier would be trivial.
Larry
