Timeline for What are the pros and cons of more permissive identifier character sets?
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| Dec 8, 2023 at 21:33 | comment | added | ximo | Not just good old COBOL, but also Forth. Not to mention the whole Lisp family (from LISP 1 to Clojure). And, of course, Raku. | |
| Jul 13, 2023 at 20:31 | comment | added | dan04 |
@ximo: Indeed. COBOL code extensively uses - in identifiers.
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| May 18, 2023 at 13:09 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 17, 2023 at 21:46 | comment | added | ximo | Hyphens in identifiers isn't ambiguous if you require spaces around binary operators. Which is good practice anyway. | |
| May 17, 2023 at 16:02 | comment | added | Silvio Mayolo |
Regarding parsing, Factor just goes all in on permissive identifiers. [ on its own is normally a parsing word which starts a quotation (basically an anonymous function). But [a,b] is a completely valid function name which is defined in the standard library.
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| May 17, 2023 at 16:00 | history | answered | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |