RE: Reserved keywords

[Reuben Thomas <rrt@...>]

> Not quite true. How about a["1"]? Should it be equivalent to a.1? This will
> clearly pose problems for those strings that cannot be valid identifiers
> (considering Lua's grammar).

This is a bit of a red herring. The original point was "why can't we use
identifiers that happen to be reserved words, since there's no ambiguity?"
1 is not an identifier, so asking for a.1 to be allowed is asking for an
extension to the sugar. Wanting to use J1.1 rather than J1[1] seems odd to
me anyhow, although I can imagine that for connectors it might seem
reasonable to think of pin numbers as names rather than indexes into an
array.

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