"Should Rust support non-ascii identifiers?” - the greatest thread in the history of RFCs, locked by a moderator after 11,456 pages of heated debate
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Replying to @sgrif
Hrm?
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Replying to @steveklabnik
Doesn't the reference say that an identifier is any character in XID_START followed by any number of XID_CONTINUE?
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Replying to @sgrif @steveklabnik
Looks like The Rust Reference mentions identifiers as being ASCII-only: https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/reference/identifiers.html …
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I believe this is a recent patch
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Yeah it was pointed out that we weren’t saying that it was only unstable and so it got fixed
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Replying to @steveklabnik @frewsxcv
I legitimately didn't even know that it was unstable. I just assumed that unicode idents were a thing
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Surprised it's behind a feature TBH. Seems like a pretty low risk thing tod o
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Whew boy we’ll read the thread
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Lots of people have many many many feels
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