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Yes, Unicode variables are a thing, but I am afraid it makes the language less approachable if it requires a special keyboard or at least some tweaks in the IDE
by S4M 11y ago
Yes, Unicode variables are a thing, but I am afraid it makes the language less approachable if it requires a special keyboard or at least some tweaks in the IDE to input those characters - and I say that as someone who added some macros in emacs to enter French accentuated characters with an American keyboard. I think it's one of the reason APL isn't much used these days...
- raiph 11y agoPerl 6 does not require use of Unicode characters in code and does not require a special keyboard. It does require some mechanism to input Unicode if that's what you want to do but that wil be true for any language -- it's nothing to do with Perl 6.