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- Subject: Re: Request for clarification on reserved names
- From: Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 07:15:44 -0400
On Fri Apr 04/25/14 at 7:57, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > I'd want ? in identifiers
>
> You can always edit lctype.c to tell Lua that '?' is a letter.
I also would love to be able to write Lisp-style predicate functions (e.g.
`empty?`).
Now I'm just thinking out loud: `?` is not used for a ternary operation
à la C, but is there some other obvious problem that it would cause if
I did this? (Other than the obvious fact that I couldn't rely on any other
Lua interpreter without lctype.c edited to run my predicate functions.)
Thanks, P
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