re: [PROPOSAL] identifiers are like identifiers in programs

[Dave Kormann <davek@research.att.com>]

John D. Ramsdell writes:
 > Let me echo Jay's position requesting a change to the syntax of
 > identifiers.  I think it is good practice to make message names and
 > keys easily mapped into identifiers of a programming language.  For
 > example, if identifiers are limited to letters and underscore followed
 > by any number of letters, digits, underscore, and minus sign, it is
 > easy to map identifiers into C or Java names.  Simply tranlate each
 > minus sign into a dollar sign.

i'm cool with this suggestion.  i'll put it in unless there are strong
objections.
				dk