Re: equivalent for C-style init: structname varname[] = {...} ?

[Dimitri Maziuk]

On 11/19/2012 07:26 PM, Sergei Steshenko wrote:

> octave:3> foo."foo bar" = 1
> parse error:
> 
>   syntax error
> 
>>>> foo."foo bar" = 1
>                 ^
> 
> octave:3>   
> ",
> 
> 2)
> "
> octave:3> foo = struct
> foo =
> 
>   scalar structure containing the fields:
> 
> 
> octave:4> foo.("foo bar") = 1
> error: invalid structure field name `foo bar'
> octave:4>   
> "
> 
> should work exactly because "foo bar" is a valid hash key.
> 
> 
> And, as shown before, the key is accepted through 'setfield':

I suspect it's because nobody does it. There may be some reason why
lexer won't easily tokenize foo."foo bar" into foo, dot, and "foo bar",
but I can't think of one right now.

-- 
Dimitri Maziuk
Programmer/sysadmin
BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu

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