[racket] Racketrivia: Using ' as an identifier suffix

From: Pierpaolo Bernardi (olopierpa at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 8 17:20:05 EST 2015

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:49 PM, Neil Van Dyke <neil at neilvandyke.org> wrote:
> I generally recommend against using non-ASCII characters in Racket source
> code.
>
> Besides the human readability question (and the searchability question),
> non-ASCII still presents a significant risk of your characters getting
> corrupted "in transmission".

Unicode is here to stay, you can't sweep it under the rug.  The more
we use it, the sooner people will get annoyed with broken services and
protocols and the sooner the brokenness will go away.

And in addition to cute symbols, there are also normal character for
writing languages other than English.

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