Re: At sign ``@'' in key

[Florian Weimer <fw@...>]

* steve donovan:

> If $ became a valid variable, then there would be a rush to be the
> first library to colonize it (think of JQuery).  Obfuscated Lua
> programs could become so much easier!

GCC allows $ in identifiers as a C extension (which cannot be switched
off).  Curiously, the same thing hasn't happened.