[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Friday, October 1, 2021 at 5:40:57 AM UTC+13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
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> Having UTF-8 string support and raw string support in a platform and in 
> a programming language makes most of this encoding a non-issue.

And don’t forget identifiers. Unicode offers many creative ways of avoiding collisions with reserved words. For example, it might be quite natural for a routine which copies data from a producer to a consumer (with some processing along the way) to have arguments named “in” and “out”, but if (as in Python) “in” is a reserved word, you can substitute “ın” instead!

And I already mentioned being able to have “∕” in filenames, because *nix systems interpret “/” as the path component separator.