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Re: cpplib: Preliminary implementation of UCNs
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk>
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 17:27:06 -0700
- Subject: Re: cpplib: Preliminary implementation of UCNs
- References: <20030419235913.GV23814@daikokuya.co.uk>
Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot co dot uk> writes:
...
>I don't think it's a good idea to make \u00aa and \u00AA the same
> identifier, never mind making it the same as the character itself.
I disagree strongly - please give a rationale for your position.
> I expect there is little consensus about how we develop this going
> forwards; certainly there wasn't the last time this was discussed. I
> don't think that should prevent this going in as a starting point.
I don't want support for UCNs in identifiers to be enabled until we
have both consensus on how it should work, and a complete
implementation. This isn't to say that your code shouldn't go in;
only that it should be disabled for identifiers, requiring one to edit
the source code to turn it back on. That way it's there for
experimentation, but no one comes to rely on any behavior that we
are likely to change later.
zw