I found a nice trick for having a dot in enums, I'...

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[elect]

I found a nice trick for having a dot in enums, I'm using the one dot leader
anyone else doing the same or see some potential drawbacks (other than not standard ascii)?

[theapache64]

i am curious why would you need a dot so badly? 🤔

[theapache64]

@elect btw, i tried doing it, but still getting syntax error; cud u share a sample snippet? 🤔

[elect]

more appeasing to the eye, I've a Gradle plugin to easier Lwjgl dependency management with tons of versions

[elect]

I just copy/pasted the char from the link
I'm on 1.9.23

[theapache64]

it works for me too now 😄 i did something else 😛

[Klitos Kyriacou]

In this case, you don't need any special Unicode characters, just use an ASCII dot (.). It compiles because you've enclosed the names in backticks, not because you've used a special character other than a dot.

[elect]

ascii dot doesnt work, is not allowed

[Klitos Kyriacou]

You're right. I thought the backticks would have allowed the dot.

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Just found the list of characters not allowed in identifiers even when escaped with backticks: https://kotlinlang.org/spec/syntax-and-grammar.html#identifiers - and of course, this includes the dot.

[Adam S]

I think this sort of hackery is amazing. I'm looking through the possible options, and found if you use https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+A4F8 then you don't need backticks

(Although you do need to add @Suppress("PrivatePropertyName", "SpellCheckingInspection", "NonAsciiCharacters") to stop all the warnings)

[elect]

uh, indeed..!

[elect]

damn, that's valid for props only, enums still require backticks 😔

[Adam S]

d'oh :(

[elect]

still a win, though

[Adam S]

ah, the enums require backticks if they don't start with a letter, so you could start them with v

[elect]

you won the internet today, sir

[elect]

@Adam S I'm looking at something similar for dash char - .. to avoid the backticking

[Adam S]

The spec says it can be "any unicode character of categories Lu, Ll, Lt, Lm or Lo".

To find the dot-replacement I looked in the categories until I found something that looked good https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category

[Adam S]

what about this one? https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+FF70

[elect]

damn, perfect

[elect]

I was still seeking

[elect]

thanks man

[Adam S]

np!

[Adam S]

I didn't try it out, it might not look good in practice. It's a modifier so maybe it's not displayed as expected.

[elect]

no, it looks good