On Wed, Jan 1, 2025 at 11:37 PM Noel Duffy via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> Lazarus 3.6 on MacOS behaves strangely when attempting to save a project > filename that contains a dash (-). It produces the error message: .. > If the dash is removed, Lazarus saves the project filename. But why does it > reject filenames with a dash in them? The dash is a perfectly valid character > for a filename on MacOS, Linux and other Unixes, and Windows. > Some identifier with a '-' in it, is NOT a valid Pascal identifier (see: IsValidIdent function in sysutils unit) E.g. you cannot name a variable like this: var a-b: integer; Unit names (and a such program names) must be valid identifiers. This is Delphi compatible. -- Bart -- _______________________________________________ lazarus mailing list lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
