On 01/01/2017 07:44 PM, Ess Kay wrote:
Hi Rémi,
You can update your tool to use an escape character
Sure. However, can you imagine how much work it would be to update a Java
source parser to allow identifiers like package and class names to contain
escaped semi-colons, single quotes or double quotes? My scenario and that
of many others is the same. It can be done but the result will be ugly.
I repeat my earlier question, are there existing module systems out there
that allow spaces, quotes and semi colons to appear in a module name?
Yes. Java EE and JBoss Modules both allow this, as do systems where a
file name is a module name.
All I ask is that serious thought be given to how much flexibility is
really needed in a module name. There are signs that there has not yet
been much serious thought. For example backspace is not allowed but DEL
(0x127) is allowed.
There has been plenty of serious thought, and I agree that we should be
disallowing all Unicode controls of any kind, but my understanding is
that there are implementation complexities involved which make this
somehow impractical. However UTF-8 parsing is not difficult so
hopefully this can be revisited at some point.
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- DML
