[plt-scheme] Unicode, take 3

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:59:36PM -0500, Richard C. Cobbe wrote:
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> Lo, on Thursday, April 1, Paul Schlie did write:
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> > > Jens Axel Søgaard wrote:
> > > In a pedagogic setting it is important that the students can express
> > > themselves in their own language. This becomes more ... Important ...
> > 
> > Makes sense, I know I'd hate to have to try to learn something new in
> > anything but my native language; however wonder if scheme's support of such
> > features may indirectly relegate it to academic obscurity, as I don't
> > suspect the commercial world has any room for languages which enables code
> > to be composed from an arbitrary collection of characters and languages, as
> > it would become essentially un-maintainable. (guess it depends on what the
> > goals for the language are)
> > 

> Doesn't Java allow arbitrary Unicode strings to be used as identifiers?

Dunno about Java, but C++ does.
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