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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada generics
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:25:28 -0600, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> For what it's worth, Ada says that all three of these represent the same
> identifier. That's not ideal, but it's the best that we can do without
> dropping into the character handling mess ourselves.
> 
> This is even more interesting when you consider that there are alternative
> spellings for reserved words. For instance "acceß" is identical to "access".
> (See 2.3(5.c/2) in the AARM for more examples). We wrestled with that quite
> a while before deciding that such identifiers had to be illegal
> (2.3(5.3/2)); we didn't want them appearing in programs in place of reserved
> words.

Yuck. Would "acceβ" with Greek beta (β) and "if" with Cyrillic і in it be
valid identifiers?

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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