On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 08:59:22PM +0100, Johan Vromans wrote:
> I assume there have been discussions on extending the syntax for LP
> identifiers to include dashes and underscores. My personal opinion is
> that a non-alpha separator is good to have, but two different
> separators may quickly become confusing. Is it 'set_variable' or
> 'set-variable'?
>
> Given the relation between LP and Guile, I'd suggest to only allow the
> dash and disallow the underscore (by syntax rule, not just by
> convention).
[...]
I think extending identifiers to include '-' and '_' is a bad idea. They
introduce ambiguities in cases like:
c1\myCustomMarkup_"text"-\pp-\moreCustomMarkup-.
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