Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.
Duh! Of course. What was I thinking?
--
Piers
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
-- Jane Austen?
