Author: larry Date: Fri Aug 8 10:34:49 2008 New Revision: 14574 Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log: allow isolated ' and - in identifiers (only if followed by alpha) Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod ============================================================================== --- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original) +++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Fri Aug 8 10:34:49 2008 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Date: 10 Aug 2004 Last Modified: 8 Aug 2008 Number: 2 - Version: 135 + Version: 136 This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain @@ -1589,7 +1589,8 @@ An I<identifier> is composed of an alphabetic character followed by any sequence of alphanumeric characters. The definitions of alphabetic and numeric include appropriate Unicode characters. Underscore is -always considered alphabetic. +always considered alphabetic. An identifier may also contain isolated +apostrophes or hyphens provided the next character is alphabetic. A I<name> is anything that is a legal part of a variable name (not counting the sigil). This includes
