[bitc-dev] CLEANUP: '=' in extended identifier character set

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

The answer is: yes, *I* will. If we take '=' out of identifier
characters, then it becomes rather hard to define some useful
identifiers:

  ==, <=, !=, >=

so '=' will remain an identifier character, and actually I just added
'|' to the identifier set as well.

Small change happened as a side effect, however: the WHERE clause in
DEFREPR now wants "==" rather than "=". This is more consistent with the
intuition of equality (which is == elsewhere) in any case.

shap

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:10 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> Will anyone be violently upset if we remove '=' from the legal extended
> identifiers? There are a whole bunch of places where we would like to
> have it available as syntax.
> 
> 
> shap
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