Re: Proposal: allow @, $, !, and ? in Lua identifiers

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy
<roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> "Other" from what? How would you manipulate a pattern with patterns?

Fair enough; one can't escape the escape problem, and personally I
don't consider it a big problem at all. Fortunately Lua uses %d rather
than \ which itself needs to be escaped.  The author's examples are
pretty, but not practical, just as typesetting and writing are
different as long as we use keyboards.