Re: @macro to accept hyphen

[Gavin Smith]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2020 at 08:23:50PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> Would it be possible to allow macro names to use hyphens?
> 
> @macro Regexp-EsnStruct
>   Body
> @end macro

It's a reasonable question, but it could cause horrendous problems
with TeX.  There is already special treatment of hyphens in various
contexts (monospaced font, URL's, etc.) and trying to support hyphens
in macro names could easily break in one of these contexts.  In fact,
digits are not even supported: only the 26 lower-case letters and 26
upper-case letters.