Re: Dollar in identifiers

Jan Wieck <janwieck@yahoo.com>

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL HACKERS <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-15T21:05:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Jan Wieck writes:
>
> >     Could  you  live  with it when we don't allow a name to start
> >     with a dollar, but allow the dollar inside or at the  end  of
> >     the name?
>
> At the end would also be a problem because of parsing conflicts with
> operators.  (E.g., foo$<$bar)  I don't really like this idea; we don't
> have to follow all the nonsense of other people.

    I  allways  found  it bad coding style not to separate things
    with whitespaces.  But that's just my opinion.


Jan

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