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Ticket 283: Initial characters in non-ASCII identifiers should exclude digits and combiners

2012-10-07 11:27:43
WG1 - Core
cowan
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2011-09-22 21:52:37
defect

Identifiers beginning with a character of type Nd, Mc, or Me should be forbidden. This is an R6RS issue.

Programmers shouldn't expect a number like ١‎٢‎٣‎٤ (1234 in Arabic digits) to work as an identifier.

Combining marks at the beginning of an identifier would combine with the previous ( or whitespace or what not, which would be extremely confusing.

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The WG voted to adopt this proposal.

owneralexshinncowan
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