Ticket #20 (new removal)

Opened 3 years ago

Last modified 1 year ago

Eliminate . as an operator

Reported by: ijones Assigned to: simonmar@microsoft.com
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: Proposal Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Impact: major Adopt: maybe
Topic: Lexical Syntax

Description

See CompositionAsDot.

Change History

01/06/06 15:02:53 changed by ijones

  • owner changed from ijones to none.

01/25/06 07:28:28 changed by simonmar@microsoft.com

  • owner changed from none to simonmar@microsoft.com.

02/07/06 16:49:24 changed by ijones

  • adopt changed from probably no to maybe.

03/01/06 15:32:36 changed by ijones@galois.com

  • topic set to Syntax.

03/03/06 16:08:27 changed by ijones

  • topic changed from Syntax to Lexical Syntax.

08/20/07 04:44:50 changed by Christian.Maeder@dfki.de

A dot in between letters and digits without spaces can be clearly separated from a dot preceded (and also followed) by white space. (Surely this needs a new lexer class.)

This breaks "f.g" but the composition operator " . " is not lost at all.