On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:16:38PM -0400, "Jeff Pinyan" wrote:
>  The ' synonym for :: is not fully supported:
>    *sym = main::;
>    *sym = main';
>    Bad name after main'.
>  Is that because ' is deprecated?  Or to stop silly missing-quote mistakes?

If it isn't because it is deprecated, it should be.

The whole ' thing just to be cute was asking for it.

mark

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