At 4:22 PM -0800 4/4/02, Larry Wall wrote:
>Dan Sugalski writes:
>: At 3:11 PM -0800 4/3/02, Larry Wall wrote:
>: >Piers Cawley writes:
>: >: Jonathan Scott Duff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>: >:
>: >: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:27:10AM -0800, Larry Wall wrote:
>: >: >> They are assumed to be declared in alphabetical order. Whoa! you say,
>: >: >> that could get confusing. It surely can. But if you're doing
>: >: >> something complicated enough that alphabetical order would be
>: >: >> confusing, don't use this shorthand.
>: >: >
>: >: > Alphabetically or asciibetically? I mean, are these functionally
>: >: > equivalent?
>: >
>: >It's utf8ical, actually.
>:
>: That should be Unicodely, I expect. But strict unicode sorting, or do
>: we respect the locale?
>
>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.
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Dan
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