Middle dot as identifier #793
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It's not allowed by the spec but it's intentional in GC - it is/was necessary to bootstrap the system, and it's still needed in some cases where the runtime or assembly code is involved. Note that gofmt for instance doesn't permit it. That said, there may be alternative solutions now that would not require the middle dot. Labels changed: added priority-low, removed priority-medium. Status changed to Thinking. |
It's possible that the remaining uses of the center dot in import/export data are unnecessary, but I'm not 100% sure. It's certainly easy to disallow in Go programs proper, and I'll do that. Owner changed to r...@golang.org. Status changed to Started. |
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This issue was closed by revision 9e497c3. Status changed to Fixed. |
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by raul.san@sent.com:
The U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT should be against the specs, but it's accepted. var one·FOO = "foo" Possibly a bug but where? In the specs or in GC? http://golang.org/doc/go_spec.html#Identifiers --- GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=linux (f7e1cbc5ce28 tip)The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: