[feature] did you guys knew that "?" is a valid character for function/command name?

Andre Garzia andre at andregarzia.com
Tue Sep 7 09:56:05 EDT 2010


Err,

Ben, this is actually in place since forever... we can pass by
references values with @....

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Ben Rubinstein <benr_mc at cogapp.com> wrote:
> This is very bad news for my long-held campaign to introduce '@' as an
> optional (but one day might be checked) prefix to a parameter, to indicate
> in the calling line that this is passed by reference.
>
> ie
>        if functionWithSideEffects(tInput, @tOutput) then
>                ...
>
> should allow the reader to know immediately that 'functionWithSideEffects'
> takes the second parameter by reference.
>
> On 05/09/2010 22:01, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>
>> Andre-
>>
>> Sunday, September 5, 2010, 11:37:46 AM, you wrote:
>>
>>> Folks,
>>
>>> Did you guys knew that "?" is a valid character for naming functions and
>>> commands? I just created a function like that and it works
>>
>> ...it gets worse... see bz #8048
>>
>
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