Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
Fri, 08 Feb 2008 17:42:34 -0800
[hm. should this discussion move to -cafe?] On Feb 8, 2008, at 20:15 , Jonathan Cast wrote:
On 8 Feb 2008, at 4:43 PM, Dan Weston wrote:Ouch. How would a human parse [apple'*'pear]In this context, `parse error, tricky syntax'.
I kinda have that problem anyway given ' being permitted in identifiers at all. Given that I expect it now, the above isn't a whole lot worse (I've already parsed (token "apple'") when I hit the (token "*'"), the only question is whether the extension in use attaches the ' to the operator or to the following identifier.
(Although I would assume the latter if I ran into it without prior knowledge, based on ' normally being a word-identifier character when it can't be a Char literal.)
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