[thelist] What's the reasoning behind not starting IDs with anumber?

[Will Mo]

Thanks to all.  Some great info.

viva evolt.


Will


On 1/11/07, jason.handby <jason.handby at corestar.co.uk> wrote:
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> If you allow identifiers to start with digits, you don't know for sure
> at the tokenizing stage whether something should be treated as a number
> or an identifier -- and the tokenization rules are different for the
> two. For example, _ is a valid character in an identifier but not in a
> number, whereas . is valid in a number but not in an identifier.
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> I think that's why!
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> Jason
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