Re: minor technical comment on 2.1.3 Syntax of variables

I heard justifications "way back when" about matching certain  
programming language conventions, possibly even allowing direct  
substitution of symbols.

I don't know what the current justifications are, but it's not a  
difficult extension for the parser, and might make some people happy.

-R

On 12 Jan 2006, at 09:30, Fred Zemke wrote:

>
> 2.1.3 Syntax of variables
> Why permit '$' as a synonym for '?'?  Judging from the examples,
> it seems that you expect people to prefer '?'.  Since every keyboard
> to my knowledge has '?', there seems to be no need to define an  
> alternate
> symbol.
>
> Fred Zemke
>