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by hsfzxjy 428 days ago
Looks cursed to me.

But TIL dollar sign $ is also valid character for identifiers.
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tempodox 428 days ago
> $ is also valid character for identifiers.

Has been like that in C since forever.

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skullt 427 days ago
It's a common extension but it's not standard. Both C23 and C++23 only allow identifiers to start with a Unicode XID_START character, which excludes $. And with older standards, it was just Latin letters, the underscore, and explicit \u escapes.

If you look in the project's pedantic.cmake, you'll find a add_c_and_cxx_compile_options("-Wno-dollar-in-identifier-extension") just to suppress warnings about this.

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ksherlock 427 days ago
VMS used $ - eg

    sts = sys$getjpiw(0, 0, 0, &jpi_itm_lst, 0, 0, 0);
    if ((sts & STS$M_SEVERITY) != STS$K_SUCCESS)
That might be why GCC originally included $ support.
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