[Pas2js] Prefix_&_support

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 15 May 2018, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2018 16:37:06 +0200
> Ondrej Pokorny <lazarus at kluug.net> wrote:
>
>> On 15.05.2018 14:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> > As said, I consider it a matter of preference. It's not because a 
>> > certain technology exists that you must use it. 
>> 
>> Yes, of course, everybody is free to reinvent a standardized technology 
>> into a slightly different technology that does the same in a worse way.
>
> Ehm, the _ existed before the &.
> All tools support the _, but not all tools support the &.
>
> If the & could be omitted after a dot, then the & syntax would have a
> benefit.

If we're speaking of benefits: if Embarcadero had wanted to do something useful, 
they could have introduced quoted indentifiers as in SQL:

My."Identifier with spaces and - other - weird characters".SomeMethod()

and this could then have been used to allow keywods as identifiers as well.
Not that I would personally use them, but at least it would make more sense and be in
line with e.g. SQL.

Michael.