2009/1/11 Martijn van Steenbergen
minh thu wrote:
I always thought that instead of having two classes of characters, one for variable (and function) names and the other for operators, only the first charater of the identifier could mean it's one or the others, so *vec or +point would be valid operator names and thus >_> too. And C++ could be a Data type name...
No, operators have to consist entirely of punctuation, and functions entirely of alphanumerical characters.
If what you said were the case, then x+y would be an identifier instead of the sum of x and y.
Indeed but what's wrong in writing x + y (with additional spaces) ? Having the possiblity to write for instance +blah instead of inventing things such as $>* is neat in my opinion (in code or for typesetting)... Cheers Thu