APL Under-bar Characters

[Pierpaolo Bernardi]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 12:32 AM,  <alexweiner at alexweiner.com> wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> I think I am going to suggest that GNUAPL use
> http://www.unicode.org/Public/UCD/latest/ucd/NamedSequences.txt
> as previously suggested as it seems like it may provide a way for GNUAPL to
> support characters with under-bars, and ease all our parsing problems.

How can giving a name to a sequence allow you to change your parser in
ways that you couldn't without an official name to the sequence?