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Date: | 2007-03-07 (23:00) |
From: | Martin Jambon <martin.jambon@e...> |
Subject: | Re: [Caml-list] accented letters in identifiers |
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Martin Jambon wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, michel levy wrote: > > > I read in the manual : > > The current implementation (except on MacOS 9) also recognizes as > > letters all accented characters from the ISO 8859-1 (?ISO Latin 1?) set. > > But on ocaml 3.09.3 I have > > #let à = 1;; > > Illegal character (\160) > > > > is it now impossible to use the accented characters ? > > Yes. Here the problem is the non-breakable space between "à" and "=" > which is character 160. I mean no. It is possible to use latin1 accents. [but I think it's best to avoid them in general and use pseudo-English identifiers] Martin -- Martin Jambon http://martin.jambon.free.fr