Re: variable indices

[steve@cegelecproj.co.uk (Steve_Kilbane)]

> Oh no! I don't want to have to escape every colon in rcp host:file ...
> It's enough of a pain to have to say make CC\=gcc.  Please, don't move
> in the direction of making every non-alphanumeric character special to
> es.

fair enough - it could just be a function, then - i was thinking of
preserving something close to the current syntax.

> Problem with lexical analysis.  What should $n-8 be parsed as?  $(n-8)
> like it is today, or $n^-8?  I like being able to use the hyphen in
> variable names without needing parentheses.  I do it all the time
> (must be the Lisp influence).

I wasn't thinking of changing the way that this'd be parsed - the index
listing would end up as one word, and %listelem would split it up
itself (i know, es isn't supposed to rescan, but i wasn't thinking of
a big change).

steve