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MyASPN >> Mail Archive >> tcl-core
tcl-core
Re: [TCLCORE] TIP #189 (Tcl Modules) Amendment Proposal
by Donal K. Fellows other posts by this author
Feb 27 2006 8:47AM messages near this date
RE: [TCLCORE] TIP #189 (Tcl Modules) Amendment Proposal | [TCLCORE] TIP 261
Kevin Kenny wrote:
>  We currently allow it as the first character of a variable name, and
>  I'd be inclined toward as much consistency as we can manage.  (Moreover,
>  I've found $_ to be useful a time or two - most recently, as the name
>  of a variable that holds the list of semantic values being passed to the
>  user-supplied reduction code in a parser generator.) 

I'm happy with them in variable names. But this is about module names.
What I'm asking is whether we want to permit them there (I've no problem
with having them come later in the name, though they probably should not
be trailing characters either.)

Donal.


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