Bug or feature?

Hi Blair,

A couple of times now, I've had use for associations that are pairs of
selectors, and I end up writing something like  #patient->#gender.  Absent
spaces around the ->, it gets parsed as one symbol.  It makes no difference
to me (I just add the spaces), but in the search for better ANSI
compatibility, I thought it worth mentioning.

Have a good one,

Bill

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Bill

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> ...
> A couple of times now, I've had use for associations that are pairs of
> selectors, and I end up writing something like  #patient->#gender.  Absent
> spaces around the ->, it gets parsed as one symbol.  It makes no
difference
> to me (I just add the spaces), but in the search for better ANSI
> compatibility, I thought it worth mentioning.

Yes, that was one of the bugs fixed in the compiler distributed with D5.1
(#1182). The D5 compiler had a very liberal interpretation of what
constituted a valid literal symbol.

Regards

Blair