Re: S26 - The Next Generation

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 17, 2009, at 14:27 , Moritz Lenz wrote:

ll 99:
   followed by a valid identifierN<
       A valid identifier is a sequence of alphanumerics and/or
       underscores, beginning with an alphabetic or underscore

Is there a good reason to deviate from Perl 6's definition of an

apply.

identifier? For the sake of consistentcy I'd just say that the Perl 6 rules

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It occurs to me that *if* you are executing/evaluating (part of) the source, then it could be argued that an identifier should be defined by whatever language the parser ends up running, which might not be perl6.

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