Re: Strings as variable names

[David Kastrup]

Andrew Bernard <address@hidden> writes:

> <address@hidden on behalf of address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The quote syntax is a bit of an ugliness which was added for sort-of
>> consistency reasons.
>
> Consistency with what actually?

After

    xxx = ...

you can refer to \xxx.  And

"xxx" = ...

has always been allowed for arbitrary strings.

> And so the NR should in fact therefore be updated?

It's not really making stuff more readable.

-- 
David Kastrup