RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

2017-06-01 Thread L A Walsh
It would be a useful upgrade besides being a "good world citizen" ;-). For ID's, anyway, I think checking the 'ID Continue' binary property would be the minimum. Could get more precise and check that 'ID Start' is set for chars starting an ID (that disallows numbers, as being the start of an ID)

Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

2017-06-01 Thread Eduardo Bustamante
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:42 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > It would be a useful upgrade besides being a "good world citizen" ;-). [...] I honestly fail to see the usefulness of such upgrade. It'll just increase the complexity of the parser, to get what, emojis? Do you have an example of something that a

Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

2017-06-01 Thread L A Walsh
Eduardo Bustamante wrote: On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:42 PM, L A Walsh wrote: It would be a useful upgrade besides being a "good world citizen" ;-). [...] I honestly fail to see the usefulness of such upgrade. It'll just increase the complexity of the parser, to get what, emojis? -

Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

2017-06-01 Thread dualbus
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 09:31:24PM -0700, L A Walsh wrote: [...] > Absolutely needs? Do people absolutely need computers? They are supposed > to > be there to serve us and make our life easier. So you shouldn't be asking > a lame question that eliminates the machines and media we are using to >

Remaining memory corruption bugs in readline

2017-06-01 Thread dualbus
I'm using the latest `devel' commit as a reference: dualbus@debian:~/src/gnu/bash$ git show -q HEAD commit 1110e30870a8782425067a060d89cc411b014418 Author: Chet Ramey Date: Wed May 31 15:53:02 2017 -0400 commit bash-snap-20170531 snapshot Since there are still many memory corruption issue

Re: RFE: Please allow unicode ID chars in identifiers

2017-06-01 Thread L A Walsh
dualbus wrote: - People then have to test the new implementation, to ensure that there are no regressions, and no new bugs introduced. I'm happy to volunteer once there's a working implementation. - There are some questions that must be answered first: * How do you how to decode multib