Hi Martin and Andrew! On 12/3/22 22:15, Martin Uecker wrote:
Am Samstag, dem 03.12.2022 um 22:03 +0100 schrieb Alejandro Colomar: ...Since we've seen that using a '.' prefix seems to be problematic because of lookahead, and recently Michael Matz proposed using a different punctuator (he proposed '@') for differentiating parameters from struct members, I think going in that direction may be a good idea. How about '$'?I don't see how the lookahead issue has anything to do with the choice of the symbol.
In simple [.identifier] expressions it's not a problem. I was foreseeing more complex expressions, as I suggested earlier.
Here, also with the context would fully disambiguate between other uses so I do not think there is any issue with using this syntax. '$' is much more problematic as people use it in identifiers, '@' may cause confusion with objective C.
On 12/3/22 22:13, Andrew Pinski wrote: > $ is a GNU extension for identifiers already. > Seehttps://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-12.2.0/gcc/Dollar-Signs.html#Dollar-Signs > > Thanks, > Andrew >Hmmm, I see. '$' is too bad. '@' is confusing. I think I'll keep the '.' for now then, and assume that there's a high possibility that we'll never have complex expressions with it.
Martin
Thanks you! Cheers, Alex -- <http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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