[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56809] Dots in script file names should be allowed

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #56809 (project octave):

I'm not sure how this would work with the Octave syntax.

If the Octave parser sees an expression "script.a", that is first parsed as an
identifier "script" followed by a subscript expression referencing a field
named "a". That is before Octave knows whether "script" is a variable,
function, script, class, etc.

I think it would be nice if Octave allowed functions and scripts to use
hyphens, but unfortunately a script named "do-something" is parsed as a binary
minus operation. These seem like the same to me. The names of script files
must be valid identifiers. I'm not sure there's any way around that without
making parsing dependent on context and evaluation, and in turn more complex
and error prone.

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