From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-05-09T22:11:10+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] non-alphabetic character in symbol

Hi,

At Thu, 9 May 2002 21:53:31 +0900,
Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> > > What about:
> > >    :+symbol:
> > >
> > > Syntax:
> > >    either :A_WORD[:]
> > >    or     :WhatEver:
> >
> >I guess it's not good for ::WhatEver:, because of parser's
> >implemetation.
> >
> >--
> >Nobu Nakada
> 
> Well... :\:Whatever: (and also :\\Whatever: for that matter). Seems

Also it may change meanings of foo?:Foo:bar, not?

> to me that this is rather a lexer issue than a parser one (for what
> its worth).

Perhaps, but it is mixed in parse.y and would be hard to
separate for Ruby syntax.

-- 
Nobu Nakada