allowed method/interface names

George Staikos staikos@kde.org
Sun, 12 Oct 2003 02:21:22 -0400


On Sunday 12 October 2003 01:49, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right now you can use full UTF-8 for method names. This has some
> conceptual purity, but in practice with glib, qt, python, and everything
> else talking to each other, if you use any unusual characters the whole
> thing is going to implode.
>
> So I'm tempted to say you can only use [a-z][A-Z][0-9]_ and it can't
> start with a number. Least common denominator naming. Does anyone hate
> that?

   I think this is a good idea.  If anyone wants to call into a UTF-8 method 
they can write a proxy.

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