Dot(s), Identifier or Operator?

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Dot(s), Identifier or Operator?
	2006-04-28 14:35:05
may think that the single ".&quot; may be used as an Operator in some settings, but I can't recall where that may be. If I do this ... Compiler tokensForString(";a . b") foreach(t, writeln(t type, " ", t name, " ", t character)) ... I get this: Identifier a 1 Identifier . 3 Identifier b 5 And if I do this ... Compiler tokensForString(";a.b") foreach(t, writeln(t type, " ", t name, " ", t character)) ... I get this: Identifier a.b 3 Are Identifier names allowed to contain dots? Any docs on this? More: Compiler tokensForString(";a .. b") foreach(t, writeln(t type, " ", t name, " ", t character)) Identifier a 1 Identifier .. 4 &nbsp; &nbsp;   &nbsp; &nbsp;  <<&lt; Identifier b 6 ... but: message(a .. b) &nbsp; &nbsp;   &nbsp; &nbsp;  ==> a ..(b) message(a . b) &nbsp; &nbsp;   &nbsp; &nbsp;  ==> a .(b) I feel that some unit tests to test Io parsing could be very useful. When I get some spare time, I might ... /Jon