[bitc-dev] Identifiers

[Jeremy Shaw]

Hello,

In the explicity identifier list I see, & but not |. Is that
intentional ? It might be nice to be able to define the pair of
operators:

 <|> 
 <&>

As far as I can tell, |, is not currently being used for anything.

j.

At Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:25:40 -0500,
Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:09 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
> > Scribit Jonathan S. Shapiro dies 29/01/2007 hora 18:02:
> > > Go look at the bitc spec again. It explicitly adds some characters to
> > > the list.
> > 
> > Oh yes. I forgot while concentrating on the Unicode categories...
> 
> It happens.
> 
> As far as I know, the only characters we left out that are sometimes
> legal in other LISP-like languages were
> 
>  :   (infix for types)
>  ^   (dereference)
>  []  (array index)
>  .   (identifier separator)
> 
> Well, and parenthesis, but LISP won't let you use those without using
> funny symbol name hacks.
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