From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2001-08-01T02:13:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18901] Re: Digits in method names

Read about context-free grammars and the theory of compiler design and you
will know why. Basically, it's because the interpreter sees a number, and
thinks that a numeric sequence follows, NOT a method or object instance
name. Allowing numbers to start method/object names would be a task equal
to a Turing machine, whereas a compiler/interpreter is a CFG.

Aleksei Guzev wrote:

> Why not allow starting method names with digits?
> This would allow measurement units support. I.e. 10cm == 100mm and much
> more.