Re: [PATCH] Do not allow identifiers that start with a negative number.

[Joel E. Denny]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Joel E. Denny wrote:
> 
> > > 3.
> > > >  An identifier can be any sequence of letters, underscores, periods, 
> > > >  dashes, and digits that does not start with a digit or dash.

> > writing a patch to implement #3, documenting the change, and updating 
> > and extending the test suite should be straight-forward.  Unless someone 
> > else desires to do it (if so, let us know), I'll propose a patch, 
> > perhaps this weekend.
> 
> A patch against master is below, but it also belongs on branch-2.5.  I'll 
> wait for feedback before pushing to either.

It's been a couple of weeks with no response, so I assume everyone is fine 
with that patch.  Besides, I believe it was a fair implementation of the 
decisions our long conversation had already reached.  I've pushed it to 
master and branch-2.5.