Re: Re: [RFC] Treat namespaced names as single token, relax reserved keyword restrictions

On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 at 09:04, Nikita Popov <nikita.ppv@gmail.com> wrote: > While I don't think anyone had plans to mix whitespace, this is indicative > of a larger issue. While I'm one of the people who voted for @@ as my first > choice before, I wouldn't do so now (even with this RFC accepted). This > issue made me realize that there is more at stake here than just "which > syntax is prettier?" and choices that have a "closing tag" are technically > more favorable, especially if we consider future extensions of the > attribute system that may introduce additional ambiguities (e.g., Rust > allows placing attributes pretty much everywhere in code -- how sure are we > that there will be no unanticipated ambiguities?) > Thanks for this clear explainer. I hadn't appreciated the "no closing delimiter" issues during the original vote, also picking @@. As many other languages use '@' as their symbol, how do they handle or avoid the whitespace issues? Peter