[PATCH] Identifiers with '?'

[Uwe Zessin]

In article <m366s5mylb.fsf at atrus.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
  Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> nospam.newton at gmx.li (Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton) writes:
>
> > On 21 May 2000 20:33:07 +0100, Michael Hudson <mwh21 at cam.ac.uk>
wrote:
> >
> > >Tee hee. I have on my machine built (in the last few days) a Python
> > >that allows one to use identifiers containing +, *, !, ?, & and @.
> > >This means you have to space your operators properly, but is IMHO
> > >quite a cool mod.  I can clean it up and post the patch for that if
> > >anyone's interested...
> >
> > Why not add '$' to that to cater to people from the VMS (or even
> > BASIC) world? SYS$LOGICAL and all that (or whatever they look like).
>
> Easy as pie:
>
> [mwh21 at atrus build-aug]$ ./python
> Python 1.6a2 (#16, May 23 2000, 09:54:00)  [GCC 2.95.2 19991024
(release)] on linux2
> Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
> Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI)
> >>> sys$logical = 1
> >>> sys$logical
> 1

That would be a nice feature, because the $ is usually used in system-
defined names on OpenVMS. Can we ask (cry at) Guido to allow $s in
names? I don't want to put that into the OpenVMS port now and risk
an incompatibility if he decides to give the $ a different meaning
later.

--
Uwe Zessin


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