On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:37 AM Corentin Jabot <corentinjabot_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

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> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 5:24 PM Tom Honermann <tom_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> On 9/22/21 2:03 AM, Jens Maurer wrote:
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>> On 22/09/2021 03.41, Steve Downey via SG16 wrote:
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>> In view of the acceptance of p2290 delimited escape sequences, I think allowing named universal escapes everywhere UCNs are now might make more sense than restricting them to just in literals?
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>> Agreed.
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>> Likewise. I think we should just make them an alternate spelling of
>> *universal-character-name*.
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> It would certainly be the simpler option.
> FYI in clang this is twice the work because there are two code paths, but
> it's not a huge amount of work either.
> I would not expect that capability to be used by anyone though.
>

I think I'd rather see \U{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMEGA} than \u03A9 as an
identifier. Ω is best, but for less common codepoints, I can see how there
would be display issues. ⍰ = 1.0 is probably not good programmer UI.