Re: Dollar in identifiers

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > Jan Wieck writes:
> >
> > > Could you live with it when we don't allow a name to start
> > > with a dollar, but allow the dollar inside or at the end of
> > > the name?
> >
> > At the end would also be a problem because of parsing conflicts with
> > operators. (E.g., foo$<$bar) I don't really like this idea; we don't
> > have to follow all the nonsense of other people.
>
> I allways found it bad coding style not to separate things
> with whitespaces. But that's just my opinion.

A bigger issue is how we handle future uses of $. Because $ is such a
natural Unix use for environment variables and positional parameters, we
may fine a use for it some day.

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