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Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable

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From Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable
Date Fri, 24 Apr 2020 22:24:02 -0400
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On 4/24/2020 8:37 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 4/24/20 8:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I think we are in the far out corners of the language.
>>
> Well, yeah, but still.
> And still leaves me questioning motivation for ignorable chars.

We would need to find someone working at SUN back in the mid 90's
to know.

If I were to guess then somebody got the "smart" idea that
the language should not distinguish between names where
the difference could not be seen when type'd/cat'ed and
then someone else later added the \uXXXX feature.

Arne

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Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 18:46 -0400
  Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 18:54 -0400
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-24 23:07 +0000
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:12 -0400
      Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 20:29 -0400
        Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:37 -0400
          Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 22:24 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 23:36 -0400
              Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 12:57 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 13:01 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 13:39 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 13:51 -0400
                Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 14:36 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 23:41 -0400
    Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:25 -0400
      Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-24 20:32 -0400
        Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-24 20:42 -0400
          Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 09:53 -0400
            Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-25 12:55 -0400
              Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-25 13:43 -0400

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