Re: Variable names?

[David Kastrup]

"Christopher R. Maden" <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

We are not using Guile 2.0 yet, and I doubt people would be happy about
an undiscussed change once we do.

-- 
David Kastrup