Re: Proposal: allow @, $, !, and ? in Lua identifiers

[Gavin Wraith <gavin@...>]

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          Coroutines <coroutines@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Gavin Wraith <gavin@wra1th.plus.com> wrote:

>> As RISC OS stands rather
>> isolated among operating systems, so RiscLua has more freedom to go
>> its own way. Thus (in the environment of the riscos library)
>> "![addr] = word, ?[addr] = byte and $[addr] = string" pretty much
>> correspond to BBC Basic's "!addr% = word%, ?addr% = byte% and
>> $addr% = string$".

> Andrew was asking about usage data in another reply to this thread,
> have you (all?) had much trouble allowing these characters in
> identifiers?  Has it caused serious confusion anywhere?

None as far as RiscLua is concerned.

Standard Lua is the intersection of all its extensions. Good
therefore to keep it minimal.

-- 
Gavin Wraith