Should this not be an error ?

[Bernard Devlin]

Maybe these should be listed under this enhancement request (although
maybe the request should be a bug report instead):

http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=7791

Bernard

On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
>
>> I was also surprised that ` was allowed. But
>>
>> put 42 into `
>>
>> is a valid statement. It seems like more of a parlor trick than
>> something that could be turned into a clever hack. And I also think
>> it's a bug resulting from the ` character's place in the ASCII table.
>> I notice that @ and _ and ? are also accepted as variable names.
>> That's just wrong. You can hurt yourself playing around with these
>> things.
>>
>
> This is certainly not consistent with the User Manual:
>
> 5.5.5 Variable Names
> The names of variables must consist of a single word and may contain any
> combination
> of letters, digits, and underscores (_). The first character must be either
> a letter or an
> underscore. You cannot use any Revolution Revolution language word as a name
> of a
> variable.
>
> Whilst I understand that Explicit Variables is the answer to the previous
> example, in this case it looks like the Docs should be updated to reflect
> reality, or if such chars are dangerous to use, then it should be filed as a
> bug.
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