Question mark in variable and function names

[Dave Pawson]

On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 20:28, Alex Martelli wrote:

> 
> What about a compromise: allow ! and ? only as the LAST (and NOT only)
> character of an identifier.  This leaves you the !cmd as escape to
> shell, and you only need to ask users to leave a space before the
> question mark (as in 'x ?') when they're questing for info about x (or
> you could switch to ?x -- whatever...).

> Embedded, yes, trailing, no -- that's the compromise I'm proposing... no
> 'foo!bar' or 'fee?fie' identifier, just _trailing_ bangs and qmarks...

+1
  Sounds more than reasonable to me.
  And aligns with other usage?

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