Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

[Ron]

Thanks, guys.

I was about to point out the difficulties for editors to get their
syntax highlighting and auto-indenting right, but then I remembered
that programming languages are (or should be) designed for the
convenience of people and not to make the tasks easier for tools
working on them.

Regards,
Ron

RE: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

[Conrad Schneiker]

> On 8 Aug., 19:34, Ron wrote:
> > Author: larry
> > Date: Fri Aug  8 10:34:49 2008
> > New Revision: 14574
> >
> > Modified:
> >    doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
> >
> > Log:
> > allow isolated ' and - in identifiers (only if followed by alpha)
> 
> While I understand why - in identifiers is The Right Thing (tm), I
> fail to come up with better examples for the use of ' in identifiers
> as $larry's-change.
> Is that the intended use of ' in identifiers.

Some other fairly-commonly-occurring possibilities are:

$Tohono-O'odham  # Native American Indian words.

$don't-reset # Contractions.

@int'l-shipping-options  # Abbreviations ("international").

$Tim-O'Reilly# :-)

Some other common uses of isolated 's (notably including other 
languages) may be found here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction_(grammar)

Best regards,
Conrad Schneiker

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Re: r14574 - doc/trunk/design/syn

[Ron]

On 8 Aug., 19:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Author: larry
> Date: Fri Aug  8 10:34:49 2008
> New Revision: 14574
>
> Modified:
>    doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
>
> Log:
> allow isolated ' and - in identifiers (only if followed by alpha)

While I understand why - in identifiers is The Right Thing (tm), I
fail to come up with better examples for the use of ' in identifiers
as $larry's-change.
Is that the intended use of ' in identifiers.

Thanks,
Ron