Re: Names and identifiers

2018-06-06 Thread Marko Rauhamaa
r...@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram): > I was asked about the difference between a name and an > identifier. I was not sure. Ah, a delicious terminology debate ahead! Traditionally, an "identifier" refers to a syntactic (lexical, to be exact) unit. It is a sequence of Unicode code points ins

Re: Names and identifiers

2018-06-06 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Disclaimer: Ido not see Stefan's original post. I recall that he has set some sort of header on his posts which means they are not processed by Gmane, but unfortunately I no longer have any of his posts in my cache where I can check. If anyone else is getting Stefan's posts, can you inspect the