From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T06:14:57+09:00
Subject: Re: arbitrary Unicode characters in identifiers?

On 9/26/07, Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, David Flanagan <david@davidflanagan.com> wrote:
> > The following program is legal in Ruby 1.9 and prints 6:
> >
> > # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> > alias λ lambda
> > × = λ{ |x,y| x*y}
> > puts ×[2,3]
> >
> > Is this a good thing?  Is this expected to remain legal, or is the
> > parser likely to start enforcing rules about which characters are legal
> > in identifiers?
>
> Oh man I hope this isn't a bug. That is really cool.

Yeah, you could cross ruby with other languages and come up with
things like RAPL!

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Rick DeNatale

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