>>I think this is the way to go.  I would not try to deal with a minus sign
>>here, but underbar should be usable when we drop the old assignment.  [I
>>don't plan to do this until v3.0 because it implies a change of the
>>sources].  I have been wanting dotted global names for quite a while.
>
> ... many near-flames snipped...
>
>Long live _ !

Folks -

I couldn't care less about _, except that I have heard a lot of reasons *from people on this list* for wanting to use _ as a normal character and not for assignment.

What I said above means we won't do it right away, not we're planning to do it soon.  Jeesh.

Was there anything else of interest in those messages?

	- Dan