Re: Accepting arbitrary strings as structure field names

[Bill Denney]

Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> Would it be acceptable to remove the restriction of structure field names
> being valid_identifier?  The benefit of this change is that Octave will have
> hash arrays for free, allowing code like this:
>
>     var.("@#$%") = 0;
>   
I'm guessing that this would be pretty hard to do.  Is there a reason 
you couldn't restrict your hashing to use base 52 numbers and map them 
to [A-Za-z]?

Bill