Re: Convention for naming of anything

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:24:40 +0100, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)  
<yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
> I've just checked, U+02CA is an accent, U+02B9 is a prime (as a modifier  
> letter, not a standalone glyph). At least GNAT reject it. Will check the  
> RM tomorrow (if ever GNAT is wrong).

No, GNAT is right, and I was wrong. Xʹ is OK and just requires to pass  
“-gnatiw -gnatW8” options to GNAT.

“-gnatiw”: allows character code out of ASCII in names.
“-gnatW8”: tell GNAT the source file is UTF-8 encoded.

“-gnatW8” works alone, but I feel its safer to use “-gnatiw -gnatW8”, to  
be more explicite.

Xʹ looks very similar to X' (attribute, type qualification), although the  
compiler will probably help to catch it. This depends on font too.

Xˊ is far less similar to X', but does not really stands for prime, it  
precisely is “Modifier Letter Acute Accent”. But don't bother, as the  
effective meaning is clear.


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