Allow emojis to be used as variable names

Language Design
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It would be cool if this was implemented i think

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val `foo😀` = 15

It works. But why do you want to do this? :cry:

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You can already use (I think) most unicode characters in backticks. Btw, even with characters that are illegal on the JVM (like “<” and “>” and others) you can do

@Suppress("INVALID_CHARACTERS")
@JvmName("validJvmName")
fun `Illegal <`(param: Any) {}
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this is great, thanks, though i think it would be better if there was a way to not make the end user type the backticks and the backticks would be taken care of behind the scenes

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Yes I would love if Kotlin had the feature as well.