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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:53:41 +0200
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On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 20:11:00 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote:

> 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 :)

I doubt they would enjoy the idea that Ω/=Ω (code positions 16#3A9# and
16#2126#.

IMO, the idea to use Unicode for program sources is wrong. The language (be
it formal or natural) should have a finite and reasonably small alphabet.
Unicode is practically an open-end set of symbols most of them you wouldn't
be able to either recognize or remember again.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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