Proposal: allow '?' and '!' in identifiers

[Rainer Deyke]

"Joshua Marshall" <jmarshal at mathworks.com> wrote in message
news:96ums4$qk2$1 at news.mathworks.com...
> I wouldn't say anything is wrong with that approach.  But then I could
> also ask "Why do we need underscores as valid identifier characters?
> You can just capitalize the next letter."
> The question mark is an unused character, and carries some
> natural-language meaning.  It's useful.

This is mostly a question of aesthetics.  I like the way Python (and C/C++)
does it.  To me, the question mark looks like an operator; the underscore
does not.


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