Dear Simon, In message <capnjgz2fgucfdbsu8tvsv5p-5p3aqnwf7ju28xmkb__w2-a...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > > Hm... I can't find it right now but did I not also read about other > > restrictions to variable names, like they must noch begin with '_' > > when using this new tool? > > Yes but I took that out (I think in v6). I'll update the commit message.
Why exactly is this now forbidden, too? > > I feel it is wrong to place new restrictions on something that was > > constant for 21 years, just because our parser cannot parse it... > > We need the + thing and perhaps we should ask people to avoid > punctuation, etc? But for now I'm not requiring it in this series, > apart from + Punctuation? Well, we already have ".flags", so at least here we do have a real life use case. I really would like to avoid new restictions of variable names, especially as I cannot see any good reason for it - yes, your awk script cannot handle this situation, but I tend to belive the fix is in a better parser than in placing restrictions on the input data. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Half of the people in the world are below average.