Re: change ci/rlog, etc to accept '@' as part of symbol

[Aaron S. Hawley]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Sam Detweiler wrote:

> The issue is whether my email address,
> address@hidden, or  address@hidden is a valid 'author' string.
>
> I claim it is.

I agree it probably should be, but unfortunately it's not.

What's great about RCS is that it's stable and portable, and perfect for
writing software dependent on it (witness the wave of Wikis that use it).
Having your "system" require a patched distribution of RCS will not make
it portable.

/a

> I agree that the '@' when preceded by a white space,
> or first on a line is a treated as a comment character.
>
> I want to allow it IN a symbol.
>
> Here is my checkidentifier
>
> [...]

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