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Jeffrey R. Carter a écrit :

> I'm sure no one will agree with me, but I don't see the value of
> allowing characters outside 'a' .. 'z' & 'A' .. 'Z' in Ada identifiers.
> Ada is designed to read like English, so in most cases identifiers
> should be in English.

In most cases probably. But for example it is nice to be able to support
Unicode characters as the π (greek pi) in Ada.Numerics. I bet
mathematicians will love to be able to use all sort of greek letters in
their Ada prorams :)

Pascal.

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