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From: Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org>
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Subject: Re: Character.isIdentifierIgnorable
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 23:41:42 -0400
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On 4/24/20 10:24 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

This has been my only guess at motivation.

> then someone else later added the \uXXXX feature.
> 
Yeah, between SE 9 and 10.