Advent of Nim - Hackdot

Re:Advent of Nim by klibertp on Thursday November 29, 2018 @10:14AM (#18560748)

Sure, Lisps allow many more characters in the identifiers, including all traditional operators (makes sense, since the "operators" are just functions and they had to be defined somehow in the first place...) You get functions named like add-message! create-response/text bytes->string/utf-8 and so on. Kebab case refers to identifiers with words separated with minus sign, like some-class-member-doing-something etc. Some infix languages borrowed this, like Dylan and LiveScript, among others.

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Re:Advent of Nim by Jach on Thursday November 29, 2018 @02:11PM (#18562929)

Common Lisp actually lets you use any string for an identifier if you wrap it in pipes, though you have to be a bit careful of casing in that case. Still for so many characters on the keyboard it's not needed to wrap which is so convenient as you illustrate.

    (let ((|hello world| 3)
          (|HELLO world| 4)
          (|こんにちは (jp)| 5)
          (|pi\|pe| 'piped)
          (|newlines
            work
            too| 6))
      (list |hello world| |HELLO world|
            |こんにちは (jp)| |pi\|pe|
            |newlines
            work
            too|))
    
    ; --> (3 4 5 PIPED 6)

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