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A house is leaking from the roof. If the language designers allow methods named "!^", then someone will actually name a method "!^".

• Symbiote 5y ago
  Most languages allow a variable called "i", but it is for the programmer to choose when that is appropriate. !^ might be useful, if the code implements an algorithm which uses this notation in the literature.
  • Zababa 5y ago
    I think variables names and infix operators/method names are very different.
  • sorokod 5y ago
    A hoarder never throws anything away because it "might be useful". That is not a useful criteria for choosing language features.
• sk5t 5y ago
  > A house is leaking from the roof. Should one prefer the case where an adult cannot order a steak, because a baby can't chew it? Like, there is a grammar for acceptable identifiers, and it is a little broader than most. To me it seems like a good thing that unicode/multibyte identifiers are allowed, and that not more than the necessary portion of the top keyboard row symbols is reserved.
• dboreham 5y ago
  Yes, I'd like to have a beer with the people who think it's smart to allow punctuation as identifiers. Hopefully by the third pint I could change their minds...