Valid characters in a module name

[Nicolai Parlog]

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 Hi Ess!

> At the level of the JVM, the entire string #"@\"What a wonderful 
> world!\"" is a valid 31 character package, class, method and field 
> name including the #, the \ and the quotes.

Yes but in your scripts it's not, right? I thought your problem was
that users needed a way to express "crazy identifiers" in _your_ (or
other Java-like) script languages. Why wouldn't Peter's syntax
proposal suffice to allow that?

 so long ... Nicolai



On 07.01.2017 09:34, Ess Kay wrote:
>> using the syntax for exotic identifiers
> At the level of the JVM, the entire string #"@\"What a wonderful
> world!\"" is a valid 31 character package, class, method and field
> name including the #, the \ and the quotes. So that syntax doesn't
> help.
> 
>> appears that NUL, CR, and LF can't be part...
> Prime facie, CR and LF characters are valid in Java package and
> class names. To fully support the JVM Spec, the JVM Manifest
> processing classes should provide an escaping scheme to allow such
> characters.  However, it cannot use the obvious '\' character
> because it too is allowed in Java package and class names.
> 

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