Re: To get things started...

At 11:45 PM 11/21/00 +0000, Tom Hughes wrote:
>In message <[email protected]>
>           Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > At 10:18 AM 11/21/00 -0800, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> >
> > >Well, it would (IMHO) make more sense to have
> > >perl6_parse_script (I do tend to follow
> > >{subsystem,verb,object} naming...)
> >
> > Or Perl$parse_script, but that's a matter of taste, I suppose. :)
>
>Given that it isn't a valid C identifier, yes... Unless you're
>using VAXC or DECC of course, which was your point I assume ;-)

Odd. The Dec C docs don't mention it as a problem, and both Dec C on VMS 
and GCC on a linux box take it without complaint. They might've slipped it 
in as valid in the final ANSI standard or something. (I can't dig up my 
ANSI K&R to check, unfortunately)

So it wasn't actually my point, though I'm fine with avoiding $ in 
identifiers, since I expect some platforms will be rather unhappy with it. 
(And other languages may well have restrictions that wouldn't allow it--I 
don't know if COBOL or Fortran are OK with dollar signs...)

					Dan

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