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From: joe@fluke.UUCP (Joe Kelsey)
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Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll
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Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 14:15:10 EST
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>From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
>'$' is, alas, commonly used as an escape from C, for example in yacc.

I ported yacc to VMS, where identifiers can contain $, and encountered
absolutely no problems!  yacc only uses identifiers of the form $n,
where n is some small number, so as long as you stay away from
identifiers like that, there is no problem.  I see no real reason to
loose sleep over the incompatibility with yacc, as there is no problem
in practice.

/Joe