RE: Unicode in source code. WHY?

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Wed Jul 28 1999 - 12:50:22 EDT


John,

The strings <Alef><Bet> and <LRO><Bet><Alef><PDF> look the same but are not
even when you ignore the formatting codes.

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@locke.ccil.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 3:30 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Unicode in source code. WHY?
>
>
> Jonathan Rosenne wrote:
>
> > I looked at section 5.14 and the amendments, and have the
> following comment:
> >
> > Bidi formatting codes are allowed as identifier extenders, with a
> > recommendation that they be ignored. This allows two
> identifiers that look
> > the same while being different.
>
> "Ignored" in this context means "allowed, but treated as
> non-distinguishing".
> So the two identifiers would be "the same" to the language, in the
> same way that canonically equivalent identifiers would be "the same".
>
> --
> John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
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