Author: larry
Date: Fri Aug 8 10:34:49 2008
New Revision: 14574
Modified:
doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
Log:
allow isolated ' and - in identifiers (only if followed by alpha)
Modified: doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod
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--- doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod (original)
+++ doc/trunk/design/syn/S02.pod Fri Aug 8 10:34:49 2008
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
Date: 10 Aug 2004
Last Modified: 8 Aug 2008
Number: 2
- Version: 135
+ Version: 136
This document summarizes Apocalypse 2, which covers small-scale
lexical items and typological issues. (These Synopses also contain
@@ -1589,7 +1589,8 @@
An I<identifier> is composed of an alphabetic character followed by
any sequence of alphanumeric characters. The definitions of alphabetic
and numeric include appropriate Unicode characters. Underscore is
-always considered alphabetic.
+always considered alphabetic. An identifier may also contain isolated
+apostrophes or hyphens provided the next character is alphabetic.
A I<name> is anything that is a legal part of a variable name (not counting
the sigil). This includes
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