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Thanks for the explanation, Dave. I'll continue "working around."
Wayne
--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dave Merrill" <dmerrill@xxxx>
wrote:
> Very few languages allow non-alpha-numeric characters besides
underscores in
> variable names. The simple reason is that these characters have
other
> meanings that would lead to ambiguities. For instance,
MyVar+MyOtherVar / 2
> is a legal expression of the addition of two variables and division
by 2,
> but things would be a lot more complicated if that '+' sign might
be part of
> a variable name. The program would need advanced rules to resolve
that
> potential confusion, and worse yet, we'd need to memorize them.
>
> Dave Merrill
> "Identifiers are arbitrary names of any length given to functions
and
> variables. Identifiers can contain the letters (a-z, A-Z), the
> underscore character ("_"), and the digits (0-9). The first
character
> must be a letter."
>
> I've confirmed through experimentation that AB won't accept other
> characters in a variable name. Why this limitation? As long as
the
> name begins with a letter, has no spaces, and is followed by an
equal
> sign, wouldn't that be enough to confirm that it's a variable and
> nothing else? It'd be nice to be able to use the full range of
> characters and signs.
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