Variable names: allowed characters

[Eli_Ott]

Variable names can be any length but must begin with a letter and can contain only alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) or an underscore. A user-defined variable cannot begin with an underscore. You can, however, use Unicode characters in variable names.

The first and the last sentence are somehow contradictory.

I have a very special case where I would like to use a special prepending character to distinct method names starting with A-Z from other ones in Introspection.

So I tried a few examples with Unicode characters as first character in variable names – with success:

Sub §abc() Sub ¬abc()

Is this safe (meaning the first sentence above from the LR is wrong) or is it a bug and should not compile (meaning the last sentence above from the LR is wrong).

[Will_Shank]

See Joe Ranieri’s comments here https://forum.xojo.com/956-stupid-trick-that-works/0

I think it’s just the first character that’s supposed to be restricted, then unicode is fine. But the necessary checking isn’t being done according to some tr31 format http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr31/ .

[Norman_P]

[quote=185635:@Eli Ott]
Is this safe (meaning the first sentence above from the LR is wrong) or is it a bug and should not compile (meaning the last sentence above from the LR is wrong).[/quote]
Bug in the IDE’s checking of names for validity
Don’t rely on it working always