Re: Variable names?

[Christopher R. Maden]

On 11/18/2012 05:26 PM, David Kastrup wrote:
> At the current point of time, the rule is that "alphabetic" is a-z,
> A-Z, and _any_ non-ASCII character.  This is a bit excessive, but
> short of a reliable "is a letter" test, this was easiest to
> implement.

Getting off-topic for -user, but...  Most programming languages that can 
process Unicode text have class tests that should simplify letter-ness. 
 (The superscript characters ¹²³ etc. do not have this property.) 
Guile has the char-alphabetic? predicate; see <URL: 
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Characters.html >, 
at least as of 2.0.

~Chris
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