On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> 7-bit ascii, with Unix end-of-lines, not DOS, not Mac, right?
>
> That works for me, since I'm illiterate. May not be so nice for people
> who are not.
My point is that we should try to make the source code readable
in random environments. 7-bit ascii is a means to that end.
Maybe line endings are relevant to that goal, maybe not.
Certainly DOS eol is OK on *nix and vice versa, dunno about Mac eol.
> And I can imagine that once we have messages in native languages, people
> will want to use variable names in the native language. Eventually
> we'll probably have to do this and it's not such a stretch then to allow
> source code to use other languages.
It's already possible to use e.g. utf-8 characters in variables names
if the Lisp implementation supports it.
Robert