Re: Macro names

[john sinclair <sinclair@mail.phy.ornl.gov>]

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Andrew Johnson wrote:

> 1. Does anybody currently use macro names that have funny characters in
> them?  The EPICS macro library allows almost any character to be used in a
> name right now, but I'm thinking of significantly restricting this in
> R3.15 (and within VDCT) to allow only alpha-numerics and underscore
> [a-zA-Z0-9_] characters in the macro name.  Macro values will obviously
> still be able to contain any character.  Any complaints, or requests for
> additional characters to be added to that list?

    I routinely use the following (and would like to continue to do so):

      : _ -

John Sinclair
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Oak Ridge National Lab
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