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

[Erik Max Francis]

Nathaniel Gray wrote:

> Why not be hardcore and allow both?

Because using a suffixed p to indicate predicates, if that is your
liking, is already supported by the language.  Allowing ? in identifiers
is not, and would require all sorts of weird parser logic to allow it in
identifiers but not break backward compatibility.  It is simply not
worth it.

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