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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