Dear Simon,
In message CAPnjgZ2FGUCFDbSU8TvsV5p-5p3aqnwf7ju28xMKB__w2-ATGw@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Hm... I can't find it right now but did I not also read about other restrictions to variable names, like they must noch begin with '_' when using this new tool?
Yes but I took that out (I think in v6). I'll update the commit message.
Why exactly is this now forbidden, too?
I feel it is wrong to place new restrictions on something that was constant for 21 years, just because our parser cannot parse it...
We need the + thing and perhaps we should ask people to avoid punctuation, etc? But for now I'm not requiring it in this series, apart from +
Punctuation? Well, we already have ".flags", so at least here we do have a real life use case.
I really would like to avoid new restictions of variable names, especially as I cannot see any good reason for it - yes, your awk script cannot handle this situation, but I tend to belive the fix is in a better parser than in placing restrictions on the input data.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk