Re: Can NFKC turn valid UAX 31 identifiers into non-identifiers?

From: Hans Åberg via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:26:32 +0200

> On 7 Jun 2018, at 03:56, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/6/2018 2:25 PM, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote:
>>> On 4 Jun 2018, at 21:49, Manish Goregaokar via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Rust community is considering adding non-ascii identifiers, which follow UAX #31 (XID_Start XID_Continue*, with tweaks). The proposal also asks for identifiers to be treated as equivalent under NFKC.
>>>
>> So, in this language, if one defines a projection function 𝜋 and the usual constant π, what is 𝜋(π) supposed to mean? - Just curious.
>>
> In a language where one writes ASCII "pi" instead, what is pi(pi) supposed to mean?

Indeed.
Received on Thu Jun 07 2018 - 03:26:55 CDT

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0 : Thu Jun 07 2018 - 03:26:55 CDT