tim@cmu-cs-k.ARPA (Tim Maroney) (12/14/84)
There is no problem with yacc and a C compiler that accepts '$' in identifiers. All existing yacc programs would continue to work, and future ones would simply be written without using '$' in the identifiers. It is not as if making the change would break anything or make yacc less useful. It is my impression that the reason for '$' would be to access DEC OS globals. There are numerous other ways to do this, and that one (assembly-language output filtering) requires absolutely no change to the language. -=- Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University Computation Center ARPA: Tim.Maroney@CMU-CS-K uucp: seismo!cmu-cs-k!tim CompuServe: 74176,1360 audio: shout "Hey, Tim!" "Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains." Liber AL, II:9.