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digitalmars.D - [spec] What's in a name?

reply Dibyendu Majumdar <d.majumdar gmail.com> writes:
Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, it 
seems a convention to define what kind of things can be named in 
a language. Is there such a list for D?
May 20 2019
next sibling parent reply Marco de Wild <mdwild sogyo.nl> writes:
On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

 Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, 
 it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be 
 named in a language. Is there such a list for D?


Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?
May 20 2019
parent reply Dibyendu Majumdar <d.majumdar gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 04:08:13 UTC, Marco de Wild wrote:

 On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

 Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, 
 it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be 
 named in a language. Is there such a list for D?


 Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
 Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?


Neither.
May 21 2019
parent reply Les De Ridder <les lesderid.net> writes:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 13:15:21 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

 On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 04:08:13 UTC, Marco de Wild wrote:

 On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
 wrote:

 Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, 
 it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be 
 named in a language. Is there such a list for D?


 Do you mean the style guide? https://dlang.org/dstyle.html
 Or https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html ?


 Neither.


I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.
If you're trying to replicate the section from Dennis Ritchie's C
manual, you might want to look at 'VarDeclarations' in the 
grammar[1],
but I'm not sure such a section would be particularly useful.

[1] https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html#VarDeclarations
May 21 2019
parent reply Dibyendu Majumdar <d.majumdar gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 15:35:18 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:

 I'm not entirely sure what you're asking.


I guess I don't know how better to put it: I wanted to know what 
are the things that can be named in a D program.


 If you're trying to replicate the section from Dennis Ritchie's 
 C
 manual, you might want to look at 'VarDeclarations' in the 
 grammar[1],
 but I'm not sure such a section would be particularly useful.

 [1] https://dlang.org/spec/grammar.html#VarDeclarations


Firstly it is not about replicating something from the C manual. 
A fundamental aspect of any programming language is what things 
you can give a name to, and then the scope, and lifetime of named 
objects.

A module has a name, so looking at var declarations alone in not 
sufficient.

But I get it: there is no such list.
May 21 2019
parent Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 17:15:42 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

 On Tuesday, 21 May 2019 at 15:35:18 UTC, Les De Ridder wrote:
 A module has a name, so looking at var declarations alone in 
 not sufficient.


I told you. All rules containing the Identifier sub rule.
I just add 'and that is not an Expression or a Statement' (i.e 
only DeclDefs)
May 21 2019
prev sibling parent Basile B. <b2.temp gmx.com> writes:
On Monday, 20 May 2019 at 22:50:04 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:

 Going back (at least) to Dennis Ritchie's C manual from 1975, 
 it seems a convention to define what kind of things can be 
 named in a language. Is there such a list for D?


Everything that contains the "Identifier" rule falls into the 
"can be named" category.
May 21 2019