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Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072)
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072) |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:16:55 +0200 (CEST) |
> Here is another "cure" for that request: if we can get used to
> writing
>
> "violin1" = { ... }
>
> for defining a name with numbers in it, it would be an obvious
> syntax extension to allow its invocation as
>
> \"violin1"
Actually, I think this is quite nice.
> A somewhat non-obvious disadvantage is that this is likely to
> confuse the syntax highlighting of editors used to C-like strings,
> since \" is not a string delimiter at least inside of C strings, and
> so it might not be considered a string starter.
IMHO, this is not something which should influence our decision. BTW,
similar problems exist with groff which has \x, \(xy, and \[xyz] to
access one-, two-, and multi-character entities.
Werner
- Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), dak, 2012/09/02
- Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/09/02
- Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/09/02
- Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), dak, 2012/09/02
- Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/09/03
- Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), dak, 2012/09/03
Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/09/03
Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), k-ohara5a5a, 2012/09/05
Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), dak, 2012/09/05
Re: Allow digits in identifiers (issue 6493072), dak, 2012/09/05