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This has remained unsettled for 60 years. Perhaps we need a new choice? How about Unicode "Thin Space" 0x2009 for a legal identifier character? (HN isn't letti

by jws 4y ago

This has remained unsettled for 60 years. Perhaps we need a new choice? How about Unicode "Thin Space" 0x2009 for a legal identifier character? (HN isn't letting me put the Thin Space in there.) How about Unicode "Middle Dot" 0x00B7 for a legal identifier·character? Best if you aren't in a fixed with editor for those. I used middle dot in an experimental language which was Unicode heavy so already didn't like fixed width fonts. It parses trivially and reads well. I haven't tried the thin space in earnest, but the example code I typed up looked reasonable.

vsskanth 4y ago
It's not on the keyboard though
- jws 4y ago
  Neither are the upper case letters or the underscore. Those are all composed with multiple keys. Easy enough to carve one out for the new separator.
  - vsskanth 4y ago
    you can see the underscore on the keyboard
    - eviks 4y ago
      no you can't, its only difference on many keyboards is the length of the line, you can't see that it should be _down_