Re: Dollar in identifiers

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dollar in identifiers
Date: 2001-08-15 20:08:25
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.30.0108152205550.677-100000@peter.localdomain
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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.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter

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