Hi, Currently I am very busy with other tasks. Please allow me couple of days to review it.
Alex On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 01/15/2011 01:50 PM, Joel E. Denny wrote: > > I could also live with either of the following, but I think > > they're unnecessarily restrictive: > > > > An identifier can be any sequence of letters, underscores, periods, > > dashes, and digits that does not start with an integer or float > > (unsigned or negative). > > > > An identifier can be any sequence of letters, underscores, periods, > > dashes, and digits that does not start with a digit or dash. > > The second alternative is nice: it's simple, and easy to explain: > it's just as easy as what's in there now. I could easily go with that. > > The first alternative seems unnecessarily complicated; it's better > to keep things simple, all other things being equal. > > > a loss of diagnostic information provided to the user. Specifically, > many > > "possibly meant" messages are now missing. > > The information generated by those "possibly meant" didn't seem that > useful to me; it seemed to be more a symptom of a syntax that was > unnecessarily confusing. > > I do realize that a lot of work went into generating them. Perhaps > they could be put back in, but we need to figure out what should be > accepted before worrying overly much how to diagnose things that are > rejected. > -- Best regards, Alex Rozenman (rozen...@gmail.com).