[racket] A question about code-style (and memory usage)

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Aug 4 05:21:52 EDT 2011

An hour ago, Stephan Houben wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 09:16 AM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> > ... and the displayed error you get when you type ∧ instead of ⋀.
> 
> That's one of the nasty things about Unicode, which can get even worse:
> 
>  > (let ((μ 42)) µ)
> reference to undefined identifier: µ
> 
> First is "GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (U+03BC)", second is "MICRO SIGN (U+00B5)".
> 
> And then there are combining characters vs. precomposed characters.

Yes -- these things were always the main reason I don't like a
case-insensitive language.

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