<div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:20 PM, João Pinheiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On 20 Jun 2016, at 22:44, Dave Abrahams via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I'm a little concerned about cases like these:<br>
><br>
> 1D6CE ; 0076 ; MA # ( 𝛎 → v ) MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL NU → LATIN SMALL LETTER V # →ν→<br>
> 1D6D2 ; 0070 ; MA # ( 𝛒 → p ) MATHEMATICAL BOLD SMALL RHO → LATIN SMALL LETTER P # →ρ→<br>
><br>
> etc. Now, one could reasonably argue that using “𝛎” and “v” to mean<br>
> different things in the same scope would be bad, but I'm not sure<br>
> we really want to accept them as aliases of one another, either.<br>
<br>
</span>Indeed, it would be unwise to pick "𝛎" and "v" for different things within the same scope. Unicode confusables are annoying and unfortunate, but not totally unexpected. Automatic aliases for similar characters would arguably be worse since it would probably qualify as unexpected behaviour for most people.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not entirely sure about automatic aliasing either. But I will boldly claim that "most people" who choose v and nu for distinct variables don't walk into that situation with expectations of sanity.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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