On Nov 4, 2004, at 12:11 AM, Michael Dykman wrote:
Scott,
At the risk of sounding pedantic (rats, too late):
If the point hasn't been already been made, I can't think of a language that allows digits as the first character of an identifier. Lexical units starting with digits are assumed to be numbers. '4NAME' might seem harmless, but against conventions like '4L' ( long suffix, and several other similar ones in the 'C' world), it's gets confusing in a hurry.
This is true. Though I'm not considering that a digit will ever follow a '$' when used in an identifier. In my case a digit would only be considered as a property of an identifier, or rather the object represented by that identifier, only in a case such as $ident.0 or $ident.0.something. And even then only if the object referenced by $ident had a "get0()" method or was a map with a "0" among the keys.
But I've given up nonetheless :)
Scott
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