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- Subject: Chars for Identifiers
- From: Markus Huber <pulse@...>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:07:32 +0200 (BST)
> "Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo" wrote:
> > "Markus Huber" wrote:
> > > "Gavin Wraith" wrote:
> > I have tested and found that also possible are the characters ?!$@
> Really? You tested it?
Yes.
> What version and what platform?
RISC OS
> If this is right, it seems to me that it's a bug in locale...
> > > The possibility of using @!?$ is a feature of RiscLua, not Lua
> > > proper.
> > Whoops! The discussion group doesn't understand my question :-)
> > > RiscLua deviates from Lua both in this particular
> > I should read the difference manual again.
> > > and also in allowing hexadecimal literal numbers.
> > I have read this...
> > > As I think I stated in the documentation, you must avoid
> > > these features if you want your Lua script to be portable.
> > Yes. I will avoid that. Sometimes with @!?$ sometimes without is a
> > little bit confusing.
> > > As Lua does not at present have any special syntactic use
> > > for these extra symbols
> > I think it would be better to use a special char for Luas special
> > variables but only if comptaible with all versions. The authors
> > doesn't think not so and now its done. _<uppercase> seems not very Lua
> > clever. Instead @<A-Z a-z 0-9 _> for special vars to be stringent
> > with the identifier definition. Then the next possible step is that
> > all identifiers with @... are case insensitive. So I can use @Error
> > and @error without any difference and everyone can write special
> > variables/identifiers in his/her prefered style.
> > > I decided it would do no harm to modify the parser to allow them,
> > > but of course it is NOT Lua, and users are advised to stick with
> > > the Lua constraints on identifiers.
> > Thank you for your explanation.
> Accented chars are allowed if the locale says they are letters. The
> lexer simply uses isalnum.
> Anyway. If you want your Lua programs to be portable, then you cannot
> use those characters, and have to stick to _ 0-9 A-Z a-z.
I will do that. Thank you for your help.
Markus
